This chapter proposes to explain experience-based urban projects and practices made by women. We argue that if attention had been paid to women from a gender perspective applied to urban issues, our cities and our lives would be different and better. Women were the first to answer the needs of children, asking for quality and the cleaning of public spaces and for housing rights. The chapter is divided into three main parts: first, The City and Housing of the English Working Class. With the arrival of the industrial society women took on a relevant role, contributing knowledge of the city and housing. Two of the women were Octavia Hill, who focused on the living conditions and unhealthy state of certain neighborhoods, and Henrietta Barnett, whose aim was to build a garden suburb in London. Second, Social Movements, Women, and Cities. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the Settlement Movement was taken to the United States of America by two pioneers, Stanton Coit and Jane Addams, which by 1910 had spread across the country. And third, Feminist and Reformist Women in Iberoamerican Countries. Women¿s organizations in Mexico during the 19th century wrote and published weekly magazines on behalf of better living and rights conditions for women. The first literary weekly journal written by women was Las Hijas del Anáhuac. To conclude, women in the public sphere can change the priorities of politics and urban planning. For political and urban modifications to meet the needs of care, the presence of women is necessary.
