PRIMA ABDULLAH Tokyo in 1994 was already a city with one of the lowest crime rates. With only 60 crimes per 100.000 population, it has earned a reputation of one of the safest cities. Unfortunately, not everyone is not experiencing the same sense of safety, at least 70% of women commuting has experience harassment. A women’s group in Osaka, Japan’s second-largest city, says three-quarters of women in their 20s and 30s who responded to a questionnaire reported encountering a g

HAGAR ABIRI 26.12.2020 50.8% of the world population are women and girls but this number is not having its weight when it comes to public space planning, a discipline still being dominated by men. Women under represented at all levels of government with less than 15% worldwide women as mayors and up to 36% women representation in European councils and regional assemblies [1]. This article is trying to trace and articulate th

Hagar Abiri 27.08.2020 Paul Rabinow interviews Michel Foucault about his interview for the Herodotus [1]. In reply to Rabinow’s question about the political nature of architecture at the end of the 18th century, Foucault says that in the 18th century we start seeing political literature about techniques for governance in society where architecture and urbanism play an importan