Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and professionals, this book offers a variety of insights into ongoing gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on urban/spatial planning. Gender mainstreaming was first legislated for in the European Union with the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999 and, although many interesting developments have occurred throughout the decade that followed, there is still much to do in terms of policy, knowledge production, dissemination and education. This work contributes to all three objectives, by advancing the state of knowledge, as well as providing educational and professional tools in the field of gender sensitive planning in Europe.

1: Introduction: Concepts, Themes and Issues in a Gendered Approach to Planning; I: Mainstreaming Gender-Sensitive Concepts; 2: Gender, Sustainability and the Urban Environment; 3: Mobility of Care: Introducing New Concepts in Urban Transport; 4: Gender, Fear and the Night-time City; 5: Time Policies and City Time Plans for Women's Everyday Life: The Italian Experience; 6: The Model of the European City in the Light of Gender Planning and Sustainable Development; II: Structural Framework for Gender-Sensitive Urban Planning; 7: Urban Governance and Gender-aware Planning; 8: Gendered Perspectives on Spatial Planning and Housing in the Netherlands; 9: European Regional Development Programmes for Cities and Regions: Driving Forces for Gender Planning?; 10: Opening the Gates: A Case Study of Decision-making and Recognition in Architecture; III: Learning from Urban Planning Experiences; 11: Gender Mainstreaming as a Strategy for Sustainable Urban Planning; 12: Vienna: Progress Towards a Fair Shared City; 13: Gender-Sensitive E-Planning for Sustaining Everyday Life; 14: Women's Design Service as Counter-expertise; 15: A History, Concepts and Practice of Time Policies and Time Planning: The Bergamo Case; IV: Learning from Architectural-Design Project Experiences; 16: Planning Urban Complexity at the Scale of Everyday Life: Móstoles Sur, a New Quarter in Metropolitan Madrid; 17: Choreography of Life: Two Pilot Projects of Social Housing in Vienna; 18: Looking Forward, Moving Beyond Trade-offs