AusRoads Webinar: How to Design Cities for Women and Girls

Safety is often the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about transport and city planning from a gender perspective, but feeling safe should be the baseline, not the benchmark when it comes to inclusive cities. From Barcelona’s Superblocks to women’s cycling rates in Copenhagen, through to building women’s autonomy into the business case, this webinar’s presenter, Estelle Grech, will share key insights from her Churchill Fellowship where she travelled to 14 cities around the globe to research how to design cities for women in girls.

There will be question and answer opportunities during the session.

Estelle Grech is an urban planner, passionate about improving social equity in cities. With experience in local government, consulting, and as a senior advisor in the NSW Government, she now leads planning and housing policy at the Committee for Sydney. She has worked on a wide variety of projects, from community and cultural strategies to affordable housing studies. As an adviser, she has overseen the development of policy to increase women in construction and the $30 million Safer Cities program, as well as the creation of Greater Sydney Parklands. She was awarded the NSW Planning Institute of Australia Outstanding Student Prize in 2019 for her honors thesis researching migrant women's experience of public space in Western Sydney.

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