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How far have we come since the ’80s vision of the 'non-sexist city'?

  • Written by Justine Lloyd, Lecturer in Sociology, Macquarie University
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In 1980, the feminist journal Signs published a visionary essay asking readers to imagine what a non-sexist city would be like. A then junior professor of urban planning at the University of California, Dolores Hayden, wrote the essay.

Hay...