A Neighborhood that Empowers Women : In Search of Housing Sustainability

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Author/collaborator
Title
A Neighborhood that Empowers Women : In Search of Housing Sustainability
Abstract
The author examines the relationship between women's empowennent and low-income housing sustaiability. She argues that housing projects and policies should be designed to enable women take control of their environment, which would not only profit women but ensure economic and social sustainability of the neighborhood, benefiting all its other residents as well as the city. The author discusses how housing policies have failed to empower women and analyzes the manner in which a built environment can empower its female residents and consequently be enriched by them, as exemplified by three decades of history of the "isolated" neighborhood called Mountain Sights, located on the outskirts of Côte-des-Neiges, in the northwest sector of Montreal.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
McGill University
Place
Montreal
Date
1999
# of Pages
xvi-145p.
Language
en
URL
Citation
Insaf, Zeenat S. “A Neighborhood That Empowers Women : In Search of Housing Sustainability.” Master’s Thesis, McGill University, 1999. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/tm70mx374?locale=en.
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