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From the guttermost to the uttermost and back (2022)
Journal Article
Greed, C. (2022). From the guttermost to the uttermost and back. Town Planning Review, 93(6), 575-593. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.51

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 inn... Read More about From the guttermost to the uttermost and back.

The importance of social infrastructure in supporting physical infrastructure and enabling the development of sustainable cities (2022)
Book Chapter
Greed, C. (2022). The importance of social infrastructure in supporting physical infrastructure and enabling the development of sustainable cities. In D. Iossifova, A. Gasparatos, S. Zavos, Y. Gamal, & Y. Long (Eds.), Urban Infrastructuring - Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South (265-276). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_16

April, 2022 ‘The importance of social infrastructure in supporting physical infrastructure and enabling the development of sustainable cities, chapter 16, pp 265-276 in Deljana Iossifova, Urban Infrastructuring: Reconfigurations, Transformations an... Read More about The importance of social infrastructure in supporting physical infrastructure and enabling the development of sustainable cities.

Are we still not there yet? Moving along the gender highway (2019)
Book Chapter
Greed, C. (2019). Are we still not there yet? Moving along the gender highway. In C. Scholten, & T. Joelsson (Eds.), Integrating Gender into Transport Planning: From One to Many Tracks (192-210). Palgrave Macmillan

This book comprises a collection of international contributions, particularly from Scandinavia, on the extent to which gender has been integrated into transport planning

Gender and Religion in the City (2019)
Book
Greed, C. (2019). Gender and Religion in the City. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

this book comprises a collection of 15 chapters by a range of contributors covering the main branches of Christianity, plus Islam, secularism and paganism, The book seeks to investigate how gender, urban space and religion interact in shaping urban s... Read More about Gender and Religion in the City.

Join the queue: Including women’s toilet needs in public space (2019)
Journal Article
Greed, C. (2019). Join the queue: Including women’s toilet needs in public space. Sociological Review, 67(4), 908-926. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119854274

The trend towards desegregated women’s and men’s toilets, including installing Gender Neutral Toilets (GNTs), and the implications of revisions to the Gender Recognition Act for women-only spaces, have brought into focus the pre-existing lack of fema... Read More about Join the queue: Including women’s toilet needs in public space.

How inclusion can exclude: The case of public toilet provision for women (2018)
Journal Article
Greed, C., Bichard, J. A., & Ramster, G. (2018). How inclusion can exclude: The case of public toilet provision for women. Built Environment, 44(1), 52-76. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.44.1.52

© 2018 Ingenta. Our built environment is required to meet human needs at the most basic of levels. If our pavements and roads aff ord our movement across the built environment's landscapes, then provisions should also be in place to meet the needs of... Read More about How inclusion can exclude: The case of public toilet provision for women.

Taking women's different bodily functions into account, including menstruation, in sanitation provision (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Greed, C. (2017, July). Taking women's different bodily functions into account, including menstruation, in sanitation provision. Paper presented at WEDC Conference, Loughborough, England

Whilst over two billion people lack adequate toilet provision, water supply, and sanitation, women are particularly badly affected. Women have fewer facilities to start with, but more toileting needs caused by biological differences including menstru... Read More about Taking women's different bodily functions into account, including menstruation, in sanitation provision.

Planning for diversity and sustainable spatial planning religion space gender and ethnicity (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Greed, C. (2017, July). Planning for diversity and sustainable spatial planning religion space gender and ethnicity. Paper presented at AESOP conference 2017 'Space of Dialogue for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, Portugal

The urban planning policy agenda is strongly influenced by sustainability objectives with particular emphasis upon environmental issues. But, the original definition was much broader and included economic well-being and social equality as well as en... Read More about Planning for diversity and sustainable spatial planning religion space gender and ethnicity.

Pentecostals and planners (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Greed, C. (2017, June). Pentecostals and planners. Presented at Spaces for Secular Space, Bristol, England

Before considering the value of community space, we need to ask ‘what is community?’ According to a range of sociological sources (Greed and Johnson, 2015: pp 271-3 and chapter 14), a community may be defined either as a group of people that have som... Read More about Pentecostals and planners.

Menstruation and public toilets (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Greed, C. (2017, March). Menstruation and public toilets. Paper presented at Down the Pan, Glasgow, Scotland

This paper investigates the reasons for the unequal and impractical nature of women’s public toilets. Men have twice the level of provision as women, resulting in long toilet queues for the Ladies. Although women have fewer facilities than men their... Read More about Menstruation and public toilets.

Sacred spaces in urban environments (2017)
Book Chapter
Greed, C. (2017). Sacred spaces in urban environments. In S. Hawthorne (Ed.), Gender: God (335-350). Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Macmillan Cengage

This chapter investigates how religion has shaped architecture and urban form, with particular reference to the place of women in the city, and the division between sacred and profane, and looks at the situation in pre-Christian, Christian, secular a... Read More about Sacred spaces in urban environments.

Planning for sustainable transport around people's needs (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Greed, C. (2016, October). Planning for sustainable transport around people's needs. Paper presented at Gendering Habitat III: Facing the Global Challenges in Cities, Climate Change and Transport, Madrid City Hall and also Colegio Oficial Arquitectos Madrid, Spain

This paper reviews sustainability-driven spatial planning policy from the perspective of ordinary citizens as they seek to travel, live and work, and carry out their daily lives within the sustainable city. The original definition of sustainability c... Read More about Planning for sustainable transport around people's needs.

Taking women's bodily functions into account in urban planning and policy: Public toilets and menstruation (2016)
Journal Article
Greed, C. (2016). Taking women's bodily functions into account in urban planning and policy: Public toilets and menstruation. Town Planning Review, 87(5), 505-524. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2016.35

In this paper, it is argued that public toilets policy is a town planning issue, crucial to creating sustainable, efficient, accessible and equitable cities. Ways of integrating toilet provision into city-wide strategic planning policy and local urba... Read More about Taking women's bodily functions into account in urban planning and policy: Public toilets and menstruation.

Planning for sustainable development around people’s needs (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Greed, C. (2016, July). Planning for sustainable development around people’s needs. Paper presented at Transportation and Infrastructure Planning: AESOP World Planning School Conference, Rio di Janiero, Brazil

This paper reviews sustainability-driven spatial planning policy from the perspective of ordinary citizens as they seek to travel, live and work, and carry out their daily lives within the sustainable city. The original definition of sustainability c... Read More about Planning for sustainable development around people’s needs.

Religion and Sustainable Urban Planning: ‘If you can't count it, or won't count it, it doesn't count’ (2016)
Journal Article
Greed, C. (2016). Religion and Sustainable Urban Planning: ‘If you can't count it, or won't count it, it doesn't count’. Sustainable Development, 24(3), 154-162. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1617

Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment Sustainability objectives are central to modern urban planning. Originally, sustainability had three components, environmental sustainability, economic well-being and social equality: plan... Read More about Religion and Sustainable Urban Planning: ‘If you can't count it, or won't count it, it doesn't count’.

Ensuring green infrastructure for all (2015)
Book Chapter
Greed, C. (2015). Ensuring green infrastructure for all. In S. Burgess, N. Smith, & D. Sinnett (Eds.), Handbook on Green Infrastructure: Planning, Design and Implementation. Edward Elgar

Planning sustainable transport around people’s needs (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Greed, C. (2015, July). Planning sustainable transport around people’s needs. Paper presented at 21st International Sustainability Development Research Society (ISDRS) Conference, The Tipping Point: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity, Geelong, Australia

This paper reviews sustainability-driven spatial planning policy from the perspective of ordinary citizens as they seek to travel, live and work, and carry out their daily lives within the sustainable city. The original definition of sustainability c... Read More about Planning sustainable transport around people’s needs.