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Linda Peake

Women and urban place-making

Women and urban place-making

Rapid urbanization affects everyone, but women living in poverty represent a disproportionate percentage of the urban poor, bearing the brunt of housing and employment insecurity, inadequate transportation infrastructures, violence, and the climate crisis and other environmental disasters. Through research, public education and policy engagement in strategically chosen cities in the global south, Professor Linda Peake’s

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Urbanization, gender and the global south: A transformative knowledge network

Urbanization, gender and the global south: A transformative knowledge network

Principal Investigator: Linda Peake. Funding: SSHRC Partnership Grant. Term: 2017-2023. Situated within the dynamic early 21st century context of urbanization, this GenUrb project conducts research and engages in public education and policy enrichment in seven strategically chosen cities (Cairo, Cochabamba, Georgetown (Guyana), Ibadan, Mumbai, Ramallah, and Shanghai) in lower-middle-income countries to advance understanding of how the

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