Showing posts with label public space behavior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public space behavior. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

"Open-Air urinals to be screened after public criticism"

"I'm not very enthused with the design but we have decided to add additional screens around them so that they are more acceptable to the public," he (Councillor Lex Bell) said.

"That's a response to public feedback, but also we're not opening them now until midnight.



"Residents have been saying that they find it offensive to see someone toileting because you can still see the heads and legs of people.

"There's also been the problem of some ladies using them, and they're not designed for ladies."

However, he said it was less of a problem for women as they mostly used toilets in a nightclub before they left the premises.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Out on a Limb: Could Richard Sherman be interpreted as a 'gender role shift'?

"[T]his was Hampton’s most surprising finding: Today there are just a lot more women in public, proportional to men. It’s not just on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. On the steps of the Met, the proportion of women increased by 33 percent, and in Bryant Park by 18 percent. The only place women decreased proportionally was in Boston’s Downtown Crossing — a major shopping area. “The decline of women within this setting could be interpreted as a shift in gender roles,” Hampton writes. Men seem to be “taking on an activity that was traditionally regarded as feminine.”

"Across the board, Hampton found that the story of public spaces in the last 30 years has not been aloneness, or digital distraction, but gender equity. “I mean, who would’ve thought that, in America, 30 years ago, women were not in public the same way they are now?” Hampton said. “We don’t think about that.”

Last two paragraphs of a NY Times Magazine article titled "Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All"

Watch the video (again please) with a perspective of 'gender roles' in mind.