Planning and LGBTQ Communities

The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces
Herausgeber: Doan, Petra L

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Planning and LGBTQ Communities offers guidance to creating inclusive communities for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals, couples and families.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781138798168
• ISBN-10: 1138798169
• Artikelnr.: 41672248

Autorenporträt

Petra L. Doan is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Florida State University. She has published numerous articles and chapters on queer planning issues, including several path-breaking articles on transgender experiences of gendered urban spaces. Her edited book Queerying Planning: Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice was published by Ashgate in 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 -Why Plan for the LGBTQ Community? PART ONE PLANNING AND LGBTQ
POPULATIONS IN TRADITIONAL GAY NEIGHBORHOODS Chapter 2 -Gay Commercial
Districts in Chicago and the Role of Planning Chapter 3 -The Dallas Way:
Property, Politics, and Assimilation Chapter 4 -Fractures and Fissures in
"Post-Mo" Washington, DC: The Limits of Gayborhood Transition and Diffusion
PART TWO: PLANNING AND LGBTQ POPULATIONS OUTSIDE THE GAY VILLAGE Chapter 5
-Thinking Beyond Exclusionary Gay Male Spatial Frames in the Developing
World Chapter 6 -The Pervasiveness of Hetero-Sexism and the Experiences of
Queers in Everyday Space: The Case of Cambridge, Massachusetts Chapter 7
-Identifying and Supporting LGBTQ Friendly Neighborhoods in the American
South: The Trade-off Between Visibility and Acceptance PART THREE:
EXPANDING PLANNING HORIZONS: RECOGNIZING LGBTQ INTERSECTIONALITY Chapter 8
-Finding Transformative Planning Practice in the Spaces of
Intersectionality Chapter 9 -Southern Discomfort: In Search of the
LGBT-Friendly City Chapter 10 -The Queer Cosmopolis: The Evolution of
Jackson Heights Chapter 11 -Lesbian Spaces in Transition: Insights from
Toronto and Sydney PART FOUR: LINKING PLANNING AND LGBTQ ACTIVIST GROUPS TO
ENSURE SERVICE DELIVERY Chapter 12 -Act Up versus Straighten Up: Public
Policy and Queer Community-Based Activism Chapter 13 -Place / Out: Planning
for Radical Queer Activism Chapter 14 -The Racial Politics of Precarity:
Understanding Ethno-specific AIDS Service Organizations in Neoliberal Times
Chapter 15 -Beyond Queer Space: Planning for Diverse and Dispersed LGBTQ
Populations