Her City Library

UN Publications and Research Reports

• Let Her Guide You – Anna Barker, Luisa Bravo and UN-Habitat, 2024

• Gender Responsive Urban Planning and Design — UN-Habitat, 2013

• Gender and Urban Planning — UN-Habitat, 2012

• Policy and Plan for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in Urban Development — UN-Habitat, 2015

• Gender Equality Action Plan — UN-Habitat, 2014

• Gender Equality and Urbanisation — UN-Habitat, 2009

• Adolescent Girls’ Views on Safety in Cities — UN-Habitat, 2013

• Build Safe and Inclusive Cities for Women: A Practical Guide — UN Women, 2011

• Researching Violence Against Women — World Health Organization (WHO), 2005

Global Perspectives 

• State of the World’s Girls 2020 — Plan International, 2020

• State of the World’s Girls 2015 — Plan International, 2015

• The City at Eye Level for Kids — Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2018

• Urban Girls Catalogue: How Cities Planned for and by Girls Work for Everyone — Global Utmaning, 2019

• Urban Girls Handbook: A Global Guide to Participatory Public Space Planning & Design — Global Utmaning, 2019

• Women Leaders: Empowering Future Generations — Global Utmaning, 2019

Multimedia Resources

Videos

• Voices on Urban Girls Movement — Global Utmaning, 2019

• Meet a Minecrafter: Urban Girls Movement — Global Utmaning, 2020

Podcasts

• Cities Imagined by Women — ArchDaily, 2019

• Technopolis by CityLab – 2019 – exploring the intersection of technology and urban life, discussing topics such as smart cities, digital infrastructure, and the future of urban mobility.

• Feminist city’ by Leslie Kern – 2022 – on envisioning more equitable urban spaces of the podcast American Planning Association.

Academic Publications

• Adler, S. and J. Brenner (1992) Gender and space: lesbians and gay men in the city.  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
• Beall, Jane. Urban governance: why gender matters. New York: UNDP, 1996.
• Beebeejaun, Y. (2017). Gender, Urban Space and the Right to Everyday Life. Journal of Urban Affairs 39. United States: Taylor & Francis.
• Borén, Thomas & Young, Craig (2017). Artists as planners? Identifying five conceptual spaces for interactive urban development, pp. 299–314. In Murzyn-Kupisz, Monika & Działek, Jaroslaw (eds) The impact of artists on contemporary urban development in Europe. Cham: Springe
• Ceccato, V & Yates, A. (2020). Individual and spatial dimensions of women’s fear of crime: A Scandinavian study case. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. Vol 44.
• Datta, Anindita, Hopkins, Peter, Johnston, Lynda, Olson, Elizabeth, & Silva, Joseli Maria (eds) (2020). Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies. London: Routledge.
• Frenette, Alexandre (2017) The rise of creative placemaking: Cross-sector collaboration as cultural policy in the United States. The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 47 (5): 333–345.
• Irazábal, C & Huerta, C. (2016). Intersectionality and Planning at the Margins: LGBTQ Youth of Colour in New York. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. Vol 23.
• Kern, L. (2020). Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World. Verso Books.
• Kwan, Mei Po (2002). Feminist visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a method in feminist geographic research. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92(4), pp. 645-61.
• Pain, R. (1991). Space, Sexual Violence and Social Control: Integrating Geographical and Feminist Analyses of Women’s Fear of Crime. Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh.
• Parnell, Susan & Oldfield, Sophie (2017). The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South.
• Sadeghi, A. R. (2023). Women in a safe and healthy urban environment: Environmental top priorities for the women’s presence in urban public spaces. BMC Women’s Health: 23.
• Sultana, Farhana (2021). Climate change, COVID-19, and the co-production of injustices: a feminist reading of overlapping crises, Social & Cultural Geography, 22:4, 447-460.