225: What if women designed the city?

Send us Fan MailIf someone asks you to take them on a walk around your neighbourhood, where would you go? This is what May East is asking from participants in her research in Portobello. I volunteered to get involved and had a very enjoyable walk and talk with May down Fishwives Causeway, then we sat on a bench at the Prom so I could find out a bit more about her study into how cities might be different if they were designed by women.May is looking for more volunteers, so if you identify as female and would be interested to find out more, you can contact her at [email protected]. "There is a historic urban planning gender gap. And this research intends to bridge that gap.""I’m triangulating parameters of sense of place, green spaces and active travel... I’m looking at the edges between these topics.""There would be much more community, about people, liveability, about connectivity, proximity, belonging, beauty. These are some of the key words that are recurrent through the eyes of the women from different neighbourhoods."