Women’s mobilities and perceived safety: urban form matters. Evidence from three peripheral districts in the city of Bogotá

Paola Pucci, Giovanni Vecchio and Erika Andrea Gallego Vega

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2023, vol. 16, issue 3, 310-340

Abstract: The paper aims at investigating the interplay of urban form and women’s mobilities in three peripheral districts in the city of Bogotá. Integrating a morpho-functional analysis of the built environment with an ethnographic analysis focused on the walking practices of a sample of women, the paper highlights the main gendered spatial experiences and how the perceived safety acts as a mediator between built environment attributes and walking behaviours. The conclusion introduces two challenges: first, the need for new interpretative lenses, different from those of a man-centred perspective and able to interpret the women’s territoriality – considered as the spaces produced through their mobility practices; second, the possibility to use women’s mobilities experiences and their tactics of adaptation as a tool for more effective urban and mobility policies.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2021.1987300

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