While there have been many books that deal with religion and cities; gender and cities; and gender and religion, this book draws together these three components and provides an innovative view on how religion and gender interact and affect urban development.

Part 1: Background 1. Introduction: Interactions between Gender, Urban Space and Religion 2. The Post Secular City: Site of Emancipation or False Dawn Part 2: Women, Cities and Christianity 3. An Overview of Catholic Christianity and Women and Space: Past and Present 4. Spaces of Inter-faith Dialogue between Protestant and Muslim Communities in Germany 5. Praying in Plain Sight: Women in the Public Realm in a Greek Orthodox Cypriot City 6. Pentecostal and Personal Perspectives: Gender, Faith, Urban Space and Town Planning Part 3: Women, Cities and Islam 7. Islamic and Christian Cities during the Medieval Period: Iberia and North Africa 8. Women in the Muslim City: with Reference to Nablus Palestine 9. Afghani Muslim Women in Auckland, New Zealand: Making Places Part 4: Non-Religious Space and Women 10. Postsecular Urbanism and the Hidden Values of Gendered Spaces 11. Neo- Paganisms, 'Dark Green Religion' And What The Divine Feminine Might Mean For Planning Part 5: Planning Policy and Change 12. The Planning System and Places of Worship in relation to the Anglican church 13. A Woman Faith Practitioner's Experience in the UK Night-Time Economy 14. Faith, Gender and the Planning System in the UK 15. Planning for Religion: As if it Really Mattered