Published in 1/2022 - Urban Space

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Feminist City – A Place for All?

Sudar Oli Gunasekaran

In her recent book Feminist City, Leslie Kern unpacks intersectional perspectives to urban planning and elucidates the need to re-examine the planning profession.

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