The Feminist Park Podcast – Un/Seen Spaces: Designing for Liberation!
Aug 31, 2026 · 44 min · 11 segments
Inclusive Governance: Sharing Power in Green Space Management Season 2 Episode:19. September 01, 2026 Establishes governance frameworks for inclusive green space management, demonstrating how to…
Picture the city you live in right now.
Like, really look at it in your mind's eye.
Take away the people for a second.
Take away the cars, the noise, the weather.
What are you fundamentally looking at? You're looking at a hyper-efficient concrete matrix.
Yeah, exactly.
A machine.
Right.
It's a sprawling machine.
And according to some of the most prominent urban sociologists, there's this fascinating work from a few years ago analyzing global cities.
This machine is engineered almost exclusively for, well, productive tourism and mobility flows.
Right.
It's built for movement.
Exactly.
Everything around you, like the width of the sidewalks, the timing of the traffic lights, the placement of the commercial zones.
It's all designed to move capital, move tourists and move workers from point A to point B.
And it has to happen with as little friction as possible.
Yes.
But here's the irony.
And it's something I think we all sort of feel in our bones.
The more efficient and glossy the city gets, the more we end up feeling completely alienated from our own neighborhoods.
Oh, absolutely.
We become these passive spectators in the places where we literally sleep.
Well, and that sense of alienation isn't an accident.
You know, it is the defining feature of the modern urban experience.
Picture the city you live in right now.
Like, really look at it in your mind's eye.
Take away the people for a second.
Take away the cars, the noise, the weather.
What are you fundamentally looking at? You're looking at a hyper-efficient concrete matrix.
Yeah, exactly.
A machine.
Right.
It's a sprawling machine.
And according to some of the most prominent urban sociologists, there's this fascinating work from a few years ago analyzing global cities.
This machine is engineered almost exclusively for, well, productive tourism and mobility flows.
Right.
It's built for movement.
Exactly.
Everything around you, like the width of the sidewalks, the timing of the traffic lights, the placement of the commercial zones.
It's all designed to move capital, move tourists and move workers from point A to point B.
And it has to happen with as little friction as possible.
Yes.
But here's the irony.
And it's something I think we all sort of feel in our bones.
The more efficient and glossy the city gets, the more we end up feeling completely alienated from our own neighborhoods.
Oh, absolutely.
We become these passive spectators in the places where we literally sleep.
Well, and that sense of alienation isn't an accident.
You know, it is the defining feature of the modern urban experience.
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