Explores the geographies and spatialities of human rights with particular emphasis on the connections between gender and human rights in planning and development. Challlenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the text argues that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit. Case studies examine the significance of these components in various countries with multi-cultured societies, and identify ways to integrate human rights issues in planning, development and policy...

Explores the geographies and spatialities of human rights with particular emphasis on the connections between gender and human rights in planning and development. Challlenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the text argues that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit. Case studies examine the significance of these components in various countries with multi-cultured societies, and identify ways to integrate human rights issues in planning, development and policy...

Are all cities alike? This text highlights the extent to which the different histories, economies, politics and cultures of cities affect people's daily practices so that they vary from one city to another. In particular, it focuses on whether the assumed differences between London, the global city and Jerusalem, the holy city reflected in people's experiences in living in the two cities. The book suggests that some of these everyday practices are not so different as might be assumed. It proposes that people of different national, cultural or gender identities might experience their city - as...

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case studies from North America, South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the book analyzes how contested national, ethnic and cultural sentiments clash in planning and experiencing urban spaces. Going beyond the claim that such situations exist in many parts of the world because communities construct their 'past memories' within their current daily life and future aspirations,...