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How Vienna focused on gender in urban planning

Stefanie Blümel

Stefanie Blümel looks at how the city of Vienna has attempted to become more inclusive by applying gender mainstreaming in its urban planning processes.

Constanța Dohotaru from Moldova is a co-founder and program coordinator in the NGO LAOLALTĂ (“Together”). Being a feminist activist and urban planner, she talks about people and the city in the podcast/vlog “Omul face locul” (“We shape the space”). Having completed BA and MA studies at Politecnica Timișoara and Scuola Politecnica di Palermo as an architect and urban planner, she decided to dedicate herself to community work, participatory placemaking, and creative feminist protests/interventions in public spaces.

Moldovian city planner Constanța Dohotaru: Our cities are patriarchy cut in stone!

Constanța Dohotaru about rampant Russian propaganda in Moldova, the situation of women, minorities and refugees, and urban planning, which is heavily biased towards the needs of men.