On 7 May NYU Berlin hosted a seminar entitled Feminist Urbanism: Designing Cities that Work for Women. The seminar featured Professor Sylvia Maier of the NYU Center for Global Affairs and an NYU Berlin GRI Fellow.

Questions considered included: What would a city designed by women look like? How would its public transportation network, commuter hubs, sidewalks, parks, and shape of buildings be different from the Berlin, New York, Dubai, or Bariloche of today? Focussing on Berlin and Vienna, which both introduced a gender lens into urban design, Professor Maier will discuss how feminist planners and urbanists are working to “un-gender” and (re-)democratize urban public spaces