Women’s mobilities and perceived safety: urban form matters. Evidence from three peripheral districts in the city of Bogotá
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Date
2023
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Routledge
Abstract
The paper aims at investigating the interplay of urban form and women’s mobilities in three peripheral districts in the city of Bogotá. Integrating a morpho-functional analysis of the built environment with an ethnographic analysis focused on the walking practices of a sample of women, the paper highlights the main gendered spatial experiences and how the perceived safety acts as a mediator between built environment attributes and walking behaviours. The conclusion introduces two challenges: first, the need for new interpretative lenses, different from those of a man-centred perspective and able to interpret the women’s territoriality–considered as the spaces produced through their mobility practices; second, the possibility to use women’s mobilities experiences and their tactics of adaptation as a tool for more effective urban and mobility policies.
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Built environment, Ethnographic analysis, Gendered mobilities, Morpho-functional patterns, Safety perceptions, Walkability, Women’s mobilities