Why is the fear that women experience in public space ‘paradoxical’ in many ways? Where does this anxiety come from? An anxiety that stops women from going out at night, forces them to avoid walking along certain streets, and makes them take the long, roundabout route home?

Fear not only reflects an effective danger in our cities, it is also the result of a social construct rooted in a history of patriarchal oppression.

This book examines various aspects of this insecurity – including its exploitation by the media and its tendency to favour the woman-domestic space relationship – in order to clarify the role that urban planning can play in designing cities that can make women and gender minorities feel safer in public space; it focuses in particular on the city of Milan, but broadens the horizon to include positive international examples.

Free, not brave, so that the presence of women in public space, especially in the evening and at night, increasingly becomes a statement of freedom rather than an act of bravery.

Florencia Andreola, Azzurra Muzzonigro
Free, not brave
Women and fear in public space
25,00€
23,70€
isbn 9788862428859
book series Milano Urban Center
number 3
current edition 3 / 2024
language Italian/English
size 16x24cm
pages 256
print color
binding paperback
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Florencia Andreola PhD in History of Architecture, she is an independent researcher in various disciplines that hybridise research on architecture and the city. She is co-curator of the research project Sex & the City (Urban Center Milano). She edited Disagiotopia. Malessere, pr...

Florencia Andreola PhD in History of Architecture, she is an independent researcher in various disciplines that hybridise research on architecture and the city. She is co-curator of the research project Sex & the City (Urban Center Milano). She edited Disagiotopia. Malessere, precarietà ed esclusione nell’era del tardo capitalismo (DEditore, 2020) and co-curated Milano. L’architettura dal 1945 a oggi (Hoepli, 2018), Backstage. L’architettura come lavoro concreto (Franco Angeli, 2016) and Guida all’architettura di Milano 1945-2015 (Hoepli, 2015). She published essays and reviews in various journals.

 

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Azzurra Muzzonigro PhD in Urban Studies, she is a curator and independent urban researcher. She is co-curator of the research project Sex & the City (Urban Center Milano). Between 2014 and 2019 she taught Urban Design at the Politecnico di Milano. Between 2013 and 2017 she coord...

Azzurra Muzzonigro PhD in Urban Studies, she is a curator and independent urban researcher. She is co-curator of the research project Sex & the City (Urban Center Milano). Between 2014 and 2019 she taught Urban Design at the Politecnico di Milano. Between 2013 and 2017 she coordinated urban research and curatorial projects at Stefano Boeri Architetti. In June 2015 she founded Waiting Posthuman Studio, a multidisciplinary research platform across art, architecture, urban planning and philosophy. She is co-author of Costruire Futuri. Migrazioni, città, immaginazioni (Bompiani, 2018).

 

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