From the guttermost to the uttermost and back

Greed, Clara

Abstract

This article comprises an auto-ethnography of my life’s journey: I entered town planning fifty years ago and am now over seventy. It is a personal testimony of how my social class, gender, religion, education, personal characteristics, family and inner-city background contributed to mutual incomprehension, and not being taken seriously by the planning profession. Planning policies often appear to be based upon an impersonal and generalised view of different social classes and urban areas. Planners need to give greater attention to the embodied and material nature of lived urban experiences, especially in relation to women’s needs, class, ethnicity and bodily characteristics.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 1, 2021
• Online Publication Date: May 10, 2022
• Publication Date: Nov 17, 2022
• Deposit Date: May 31, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 30, 2023
• Journal: Town Planning Review
• Print ISSN: 0041-0020
• Electronic ISSN: 1478-341X
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 93
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 575-593
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.51
• Keywords: Women in planning; social class; inner-city policy; ethnicity and planning; ethnography; materiality of urban situation; toilets; religion
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9586662
• Publisher URL: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/tpr.2021.51