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<p>In urban design, maps help make spatial conditions visible, navigable, and actionable. However, mainstream mapping practices often privilege standardized, easily obtainable data, leaving women’s everyday mobility needs and infrastructures of care underrepresented in urban design evidence. To address this gap, this study adopts a counter-mapping approach grounded in feminist GIS to identify, collect, map, and analyze urban design-inclusive features across the University of Calgary campus. In doing so, we introduce a gender-inclusive urban design toolkit–a geospatial data typology, mapping practices, and analysis methods–that helps translate everyday experiences of safety, accessibility, care, comfort, and representation into actionable urban design&#xa0;knowledge.&#xa0;The findings include the UCalgary Map for All (an interactive map application for campus navigation), a spatial assessment of campus gender inclusivity, and mapping-driven design recommendations to support campus transformation. Finally, we argue that feminist GIS can inform counter-mapping in urban design by moving beyond conventional notions of efficient mapping and design toward more careful, creative, and inclusive practices that make overlooked spatial needs visible, spatially legible, and actionable.</p>

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Expanding the urban design toolbox: Counter-mapping for gender inclusion

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    2026年7月27日

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  • Hawjin Falahatkar,
  • Victoria Fast

摘要

In urban design, maps help make spatial conditions visible, navigable, and actionable. However, mainstream mapping practices often privilege standardized, easily obtainable data, leaving women’s everyday mobility needs and infrastructures of care underrepresented in urban design evidence. To address this gap, this study adopts a counter-mapping approach grounded in feminist GIS to identify, collect, map, and analyze urban design-inclusive features across the University of Calgary campus. In doing so, we introduce a gender-inclusive urban design toolkit–a geospatial data typology, mapping practices, and analysis methods–that helps translate everyday experiences of safety, accessibility, care, comfort, and representation into actionable urban design knowledge. The findings include the UCalgary Map for All (an interactive map application for campus navigation), a spatial assessment of campus gender inclusivity, and mapping-driven design recommendations to support campus transformation. Finally, we argue that feminist GIS can inform counter-mapping in urban design by moving beyond conventional notions of efficient mapping and design toward more careful, creative, and inclusive practices that make overlooked spatial needs visible, spatially legible, and actionable.