Situating Feminist Urbanism within Planning Education in Turkey: A Pre-Manifesto

Abstract

The authors of this paper - all women and early-career researchers - address the place of feminist perspective within planning education. This positioning is revealed through ‘dilemmas’ and ‘epiphanies1’ in the authors’ experiences by employing an autoethnographic perspective. In the quest to create gender-equal urban areas, the study explores what planning education and teaching & practice experiences can offer to accommodate feminist insights. And it uncovers challenges and potentials in creating competence on feminist urbanism in planning, through rigorous analysis of personalized narratives. We anticipate our research to act as a pre-manifesto to provoke ‘planning’ audiences for the upswing in inclusive urban planning