El lado nocturno de la vida cotidiana: un análisis feminista de la planificación urbana nocturna

Abstract

The Night Side of the Everyday Life: A Feminist Analysis of Planning the Night

Based on a literature review of research on nocturnal urban planning, this paper advocates including in the new urban agenda an intersectional gender perspective in planning the urban night. The paper analyzes the existing research on how gendered bodies have been conceptualized in planning and in the nocturnal context, how urban planning has approached the nocturnal sphere, and how fear and safety affect women’s mobility at night. The literature review reveals the role of planning in relation to the nocturnal sphere as one of regulating and controlling what happens at night and who has the right to the night city. However, there is no gender and intersectional perspective in nocturnal planning, which encumbers the everyday/everynight life of those who, because of their productive, care and reproductive work, regularly use the city after dark. The paper concludes by advocating the inclusion of diverse gendered bodies in the new urban agenda and in planning the night, expanding this debate beyond the night-time economy of leisure and consumption, and making women’s role visible in nocturnal planning.