Gender in Mainstreaming Urban Development
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Gender in Mainstreaming Urban Development Berlin on the path towards becoming a metropolis worth living in for women and men Gender in Mainstreaming Urban Development Berlin on the path towards becoming a metropolis worth living in for women and men Imprint Contents Publisher 5 Preface Workshop 1 Senate Department for Urban Development Senator Ingeborg Junge-Reyer “Urban development processes“ Württembergische Strasse 6, 10707 Berlin 6 Editorial: Gender on the path to the 39 Results “Urban development processes“ Office of the Women’s Advisory Committee mainstream of urban development Elke Baranek – Experiences and prospects Pamela Dorsch & Christiane Droste 40 Gender Mainstreaming in urban Editor of the English edition development processes – A first review Christiane Droste Experiences & successes of results gender+, Berlin Annalie Schoen 8 Gender on the path to the Senate Layout Department for Urban Development 44 Gender Mainstreaming in urban Christine Meierhofer Sibylle Krönert development: Where we stand today and where we are headed Title page 11 Gender Mainstreaming in urban Prof. Rebecca Chestnutt Udo Tremmel Medienprojekte, Berlin development planning – A challenge for the administration 47 Toolbox 1: Gender oriented utilisation June 2011 Hilmar von Lojewski analysis of open spaces 14 Work report of the Women’s Advisory Workshop 2 Committee 2005: Bringing women “Interim space utilisation“ and gender issues on the path to the mainstream 49 Results “Interim space utilisation“ Women’s Advisory Committee at the Senate Dr. Margit Schild Department for Urban Development 51 Urban development through interim 21 “Like a fish in mainstream?“ space utilisation – considered from a – Critical questions on the Gender Gender Mainstreaming perspective Mainstreaming process in the urban Ursula Renker development of Berlin Christiane Droste & Pamela Dorsch 53 Gender Mainstreaming, interim space utilisation and monument preservation 25 Advocating diversity in housing Prof. Dr. Jörg Haspel cooperatives – Quality assurance through Gender Mainstreaming 56 Gender relations in interim space Christiane Droste utilisation Dr. Annette Harth & Dr. Margit Schild 59 Toolbox 2: Participation in a gender equitable way Workshop 3 83 Toolbox 4: Gender Mainstreaming in Conclusions & prospects “Citizen participation in urban the “Socially Integrative City“ reconstruction“ 98 A variety of social roles – Gender Workshop 5 Mainstreaming in the urban 62 Results “Citizen participation in urban “Local public transport planning” development of Berlin reconstruction“ Prof. Elke Pahl-Weber Christiane Droste 85 Results “Local public transport planning“ 101 Seven thoughts about gender in 65 Gender Advisory Committee Urban Christine Färber, Dirk Jordan & mainstreaming urban development Reconstruction East – Experiences of Sibylle Krönert Ingo Siebert the Gender Mainstreaming pilot project in the district of Lichtenberg- 87 Gender equitable local public transport 103 Giving advice, informing, networking: Hohenschönhausen for the public benefit Reflections on the role of committees Katrin Lompscher & Jana Sprenger Georg Müller in Gender Mainstreaming processes Dr. Stephanie Bock 69 Toolbox 3: Gender checklist Urban 90 Gender in local public transport Reconstruction East planning 107 If gender is well, all is well? Dr. Christine Färber – Conclusion and outlook. Workshop 4 Pamela Dorsch & Christiane Droste “Social Integrative City“ 95 Toolbox 5: Gender audit in local public transport planning 111 Photos and illustrations 72 Results “Socially Integrative City“ Pamela Dorsch, Anna Damrat, Appendix Karin Ganssauge & Dagmar Buchholz Members of the Women’s Advisory 74 Socially Integrative City without Committee at the Senate Department gender? – Gender Mainstreaming in for Urban Development neighborhood management Anna Damrat Final report on the implementation of Gender Mainstreaming in 78 Gender Mainstreaming – Conflict of Berlin’s policies and administration goals or opportunity in the neighbour – Guidelines Dept. II Urban hood management of the “Socially Development and Projects Integrative City“ Senate Department for Urban Dagmar Buchholz Development 81 Gender in disadvantaged urban neigh Gender Mainstreaming in the planning bourhoods? Experiences and appraisals of open spaces and playgrounds. from practical work in urban neighbour Reader on the workshop of 29.09.05 hoods Elke Baranek Birgit Hunkenschroer Preface The Senate Department is guided in the I would therefore like to thank all who, with implementation of Gender Mainstreaming by a lot of commitment, have been involved in nationwide and trans-European examples and this process for almost a decade now. I do this enables an expanded transfer of knowledge particularly because Gender Mainstreaming and dialogue, also with regard to Berlin practice, can only become a real success story when the with this 3rd edition of the documentation in actors in the pilot projects also take on the role the English language. It took up the sugges of disseminators. tion for further pilot projects with the project “Advocating Diversity in Housing Cooperatives The symposium in 2006 with its professional – Quality Development through Gender expert discussions and further training pos Mainstreaming” that was implemented within sibilities certainly gave many members of staff the context of the master plan regarding the the chance to find their orientation in “Gender gender equality policy framework of the state Mainstreaming”. On this journey we need not of Berlin that came into force in 2009. An article only the continual support of representatives of on this project brings the German language politics, but also the willingness of all partici version of the brochure that was published in pants in politics and administration to also al- 2006 up to date. low changes in our and their personal views. An important partner in this process will in future The Women’s Advisory Committee of my be the housing economy, something that has administration is still a constant companion been proved by the since then implemented of our work. It was called upon to give its view pilot project on gender diversity and coopera The State of Berlin consciously decided, nine on the planned pilot projects and increasingly tive housing. years ago, to put forth an ambitious concept for comments on central competitions and urban the implementation of Gender Mainstreaming development tasks of the state of Berlin in order The now available revised documentation is at state level and in its 12 districts. In this way to strengthen the viewpoint of women that is a multi-layered compilation of reports and the development of Gender Competence and often not well represented in decision-making discussions on problematic aspects seen from practical experience in the implementation of processes dominated by men. The needs, user different angles and positions that can still Gender Mainstreaming in administration was to interests and perceptions of women and men serve today as an introduction to the subject be achieved. On the basis of this decision, more in their everyday life were at the centre of the matter, even beyond the symposium, for those than 50 projects have since been carried out in deliberations. In this sense Gender Mainstream who have so far not dealt comprehensively with the Senate Departments, in selected districts ing means always considering and systemati Gender Mainstreaming. and with regard to key projects of the Berlin cally and consciously taking notice of social urban planning department. In doing so, the inequalities between women and men in all I thank all the members of our office and in main emphasis in the Senate Department for areas and in all planning and decision-making particular the Women’s Advisory Committee Urban Development was, till 2008, in the area phases. In the context of demographic change, for the realization of the symposium and for of urban planning. The districts of Lichtenberg other categories such as age and migration gain this documentation that gender+ has revised Hohenschönhausen and Kreuzberg-Friedrich in importance. for the English language edition of 2011. At the shain developed pilot projects within the con same time I would also like to thank all other text of the program Urban Redevelopment East For the state of Berlin, this means that all speakers for their cooperativeness within the (Stadtumbau Ost), in the area of construction undertakings are reviewed in terms of possible framework of the symposium and the contin supervision and in the planning of playgrounds. gender-specific effects and designed in such ued productive cooperation in many fields and a manner that they also contribute towards instances. I am sure that we have made good In 2006 the Senate Department opened up to promoting equality of women and men. In do progress since 2006 on our path to a gender a public dialogue in its involvement with this ing so, taking into account the different needs equitable town worth living in, not least in the subject in the symposium documented here. of women and men should not just be a matter sense of the equality of women and men. of accepting these differences as a given, but Together with the Women’s Advisory Commit rather looking for their causes. As a result of this tee and the research group “Women’s Rights a prescription of gender-specific roles should Education” of the Berlin Educational Institute of be overcome, structural inequalities removed the Heinrich Böll Foundation, it initiated a