Urban Proximity: A Methodological Approach from a Gender Perspective Chapter in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • The studyProximity presented is part of a broader research on women, city, and everyday lifeEveryday life funded by the National Council of Humanities, Sciences, and Technologies (CONAHCYT) of MexicoMexico and the Observatory of Cities of Tecnologico de Monterrey, carried out in collaborationCollaborations between these three institutions: Universidad de Guadalajara, Tecnologico de Monterrey, and Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara. When we talk about cities from a genderGender perspective, proximityProximity is an indispensable value. Women have the difficult task of reconciling the role and times of care with their productive work and the rest of their daily activities. Thinking about a reorganization of urban spaceSpace from a neighborhood scale means supporting care tasks, favoring the creation of supportSupports networks and making the use of time more efficient, which would also allow a more equitable distribution of these tasks, leading to the construction of more inclusive citiesInclusive cities and societies. The crisesCrisis that cross contemporary times, accentuated by the recent global pandemic, have increased reflection on these issues: ¿the quarter-hour city¿, a concept coined by Carlos Moreno in 2015 and taken up by Mayor Anne Hidalgo as an urban proposal for the city of Paris has become the foundation of a new paradigm of sustainability and quality of life. The objective of this chapter is to argue and propose the construction of a methodologyMethodology for qualitative analysis at the neighborhood scale that allows measuring proximityProximity from a genderGender perspective. As part of the results and future applications of this study, the possibility of allowing new mappings of the territory through qualitative measurements of proximityProximity is envisaged. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

publication date

  • January 1, 2025