Submitted by Lucía De Zan | 03/2026
Open call for contributions
Sustainable Urban Planning: A Gender Perspective
Special Issue Sustainability Journal
This special issue will address gender mainstreaming in urban and regional planning, as a key element of sustainability, by focusing on how to advance actual implementation. It seeks to expand research on actual policies, programs, plans, initiatives, and projects, implemented around the world, in ways that can point to innovative directions for future advances and greater transformative capacity towards more gender equal cities and human settlements.
The principle of gender mainstreaming, when applied to urban planning and mobility, addresses the spatial implications of care, daily life, safety, intersectionality, access to employment, and women’s representation, as key elements in building more egalitarian cities and transport systems.
This special issue seeks to explore ways to buttress the transformative potential of gender perspectives in urban planning, by bringing redistribution back as a core principle of gender equality agendas in urban planning.
As argued here https://lnkd.in/gsUxT4-6 in order to equally address both issues of redistribution and of recognition, gender planning, or feminist planning, needs to make ample use of the full range of the planning powers that governments have at their disposal, at all scales, and beyond the limited impact of the soft powers that are today mostly being used.
More information: https://lnkd.in/dRymvgnK
Deadline on 22 September 2026