Contentious Cities

Grounded in feminist and queer methods, this book offers unique interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment, exploring the means by which design-tactics might affect the ways in which women and people of diverse gender and sexual identity inhabit, occupy and move through urban space.

Jess Berry is Senior Lecturer in Design History and Theory at Monash University, Australia and the author of House of Fashion: Haute Couture and the Modern Interior .

Timothy Moore is a lecturer in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, Australia.

Nicole Kalms is the founding director at XYX Lab and associate professor in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of Hypersexual City .

Gene Bawden is a communication designer, Co-director of XYX Lab and head of Design at Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Comfort and Judgement: Nineteenth Century Advice Manuals and the Scripting of Australian Identity .