Mainstreaming equality into strategic spatial policy making: Are town planners losing sight of gender?

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1059-1070

  Greed, Clara ^a   Reeves, Dory ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b Reeves Associates   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Equality; Gender; Greater London Authority; Mainstreaming; Spatial planning

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PLANNING; PUBLIC POLICY;

MAINSTREAMING EQUALITY; SPATIAL PLANNING;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

GENDER; POLICY MAKING; SPATIAL PLANNING; URBAN PLANNING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 28444472873     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190500372353     Document Type: Article

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