Gendered cities: Studying urban gender bias through street names

Sustainable urban development through complete street policy implementation

Nowadays, the expansion of the cities is an inevitable necessity; increasing the dependence of the citizens on motor vehicles and, consequently, making development of the transportation networks a necessity rather than an option. Thus, increasing car ownership and car use has created many problems for the cities, such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, environmental pollution, casualties o...

The Gendered Polis in Eupolis' Cities

Ever since Antiphanes brought on the stage a character, perhaps Comedy herself, complaining that comedy was more difficult to compose than tragedy (fr. 189.17-23 K-A), it has become something of a truism to say that the poets of Old Comedy had at their disposal much richer and less generically restricted literary possibilities than their colleagues working in tragedy. Comments Postprint version...

Improving the Quality of Urban Spaces through Image Processing, Case Study: 17th-Shahrivar Street of Tehran

Modeling urban street patterns.

Urban street patterns form planar networks whose empirical properties cannot be accounted for by simple models such as regular grids or Voronoi tesselations. Striking statistical regularities across different cities have been recently empirically found, suggesting that a general and detail-independent mechanism may be in action. We propose a simple model based on a local optimization process co...

Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

Morgan Stanley has been hit, yet again, with a gender discrimination lawsuit. ... The suit comes two years after former Morgan broker Allison Schieffelin was awarded $12 million in her sexual discrimination suit against the firm. ... According to this latest complaint, ... ‘‘Morgan Stanley has engaged in a pattern and practice of gender discrimination with respect to compensation and promoting ...