The Feminist Park Podcast

The episodes are voiced by AI-generated hosts (“Kwame” and “Leilani”), produced by the project as an experiment in making research accessible. Each episode names its source paper so you can read the original.

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59 Episodes

• S2 E29

  Mexico: Environmental Attitudes and Youth Empowerment

  November 10, 2026, 33 min, Transcript: —

  Environmental education should help young people shape sustainable cities, not simply teach them to worry about the future. What could that mean for feminist urbanism, community engagement, and inclusive green spaces?

• S2 E28

  Circular Cities: Mapping Urban Sustainability Strategies Worldwide

  November 3, 2026, 44 min, Transcript: —

  Provides frameworks for circular economy implementation in cities, informing zero-waste programming and resource-sharing systems.

• S2 E27

  Green Politics Across Borders: Immigrant Political Socialization

  October 27, 2026, 45 min, Transcript: —

  Examines how immigrant political identities shape engagement with progressive and green politics.

• S2 E26

  Toronto: Parks as Belonging, an intersectional Qualitative Study

  October 20, 2026, 47 min, Transcript: —

  How urban parks contribute to a sense of belonging for diverse communities in Toronto.

• S2 E25

  Reclaiming the Streets: Copenhagen's Parking Conversion Revolution

  October 13, 2026, 49 min, Transcript: —

  Well-being improvements documented when parking is converted to green space.

• S2 E36

  “¡Abre la puerta, Maricarmen!”: Who Gets to Live in Madrid? & Leslie Kern's Anti-Gentrification Book

  October 7, 2026, 33 min, Transcript: —

  What happens when a home becomes more valuable than the person who has lived there for 71 years? A tribute episode on housing, eviction and gentrification in Madrid.

• S2 E24

  Generations Together: Integrating Age-Friendly and Child-Friendly Design

  October 6, 2026, 37 min, Transcript: —

  Intergenerational park design that serves children and older people at the same time.

• S2 E23

  Feeding the City: Feminist Care Ethics in Urban Food Systems

  September 29, 2026, 51 min, Transcript: —

  Gender inequality in urban food systems, community gardens and food justice.

• S2 E22

  From Parking Lots to Parks: The Mortality Benefits of Green Cities

  September 22, 2026, 50 min, Transcript: —

  Research quantifying the health effects of converting car infrastructure to green space.

• S2 E21

  Urban Commons as Citizenship: Participation and Belonging in Bologna

  September 15, 2026, 41 min, Transcript: —

  Collaborative management of urban commons in Bologna as a pathway to wider citizenship.

• S2 E20

  Intersectional Resilience: Justice at the Interface of Health Systems

  September 8, 2026, 43 min, Transcript: —

  Intersectionality theory applied to overlapping vulnerabilities in health systems.

• S2 E19

  Inclusive Governance: Sharing Power in Green Space Management

  August 31, 2026, 44 min, Transcript: —

  Moving from consultation to shared power in managing green spaces.

• S2 E18

  Street Tree Stewards: Citizens Cultivating Urban Biodiversity

  August 25, 2026, 50 min, Transcript: —

  How citizen stewardship of street trees supports urban biodiversity and environmental citizenship.

• S2 E17

  The Feminine Gaze: Integrating Care into Territorial Design

  August 18, 2026, 38 min, Transcript: —

  Theoretical foundations for gender-sensitive planning that places care at the centre of territorial design.

• S2 E16

  Can We Live With Men? Ethics After Patriarchal Violence

  August 11, 2026, 42 min, Transcript: —

  Questions of safety and coexistence after gender-based violence.

• S2 E15

  Feminist Commons: Care, Autonomy, and Radical Alternatives

  August 4, 2026, 57 min, Transcript: —

  Feminist urban commons in Montevideo and Rome that put care and mutual aid first.

• S2 E14

  Berlin CSD Attack: The Psychology of Radicalization, Feminist Geographies, Queer Safety & the Geography of Hate

  July 28, 2026, 42 min, Transcript: —

  Dedicated to the victims of the July 2026 Pride attack in Berlin's Tiergarten and to the LGBTQIA+ community grieving alongside them.

• S2 E13

  Bad Bunny and The Feminist Park: Trojan Horse of Resistance?

  July 20, 2026, 34 min, Transcript: —

  What does it mean when activism becomes aesthetic, and how do we tell solidarity from strategy?

• S2 E12

  Against Artwashing: Artists in Solidarity with Housing Justice

  July 14, 2026, 48 min, Transcript: —

  Cultural co-optation in gentrification and artists organising for housing justice.

• S2 E11

  Feminist Plazas: Co-Creating Gender-Just Public Squares

  July 7, 2026, 37 min, Transcript: —

  Feminist co-creation of public squares in Montreal and Montevideo.

• S2 E10

  Care Blocks: Building Solidarity Through Public Care Infrastructure

  June 30, 2026, 41 min, Transcript: —

  How public care infrastructure creates unexpected social networks.

• S2 E9

  Green Pathways: Children's Right to Nature in Urban Design

  June 23, 2026, 42 min, Transcript: —

  Children's environmental rights and safe, green routes through the city.

• S2 E8

  Gardens of Belonging: How Green Spaces Heal Loneliness

  June 16, 2026, 45 min, Transcript: —

  Green spaces as social infrastructure against isolation. Source: Viniece Jennings et al., “The Dynamic Relationship between Social Cohesion and Urban Green Space in Diverse Communities”.

• S2 E7

  Green Gentrification: When Parks Become Weapons of Displacement

  June 9, 2026, 39 min, Transcript: —

  How green infrastructure can deepen displacement, and what anti-displacement commitments look like.

• S2 E6

  Degrowth Gardens: From Neoliberal Greening to Urban Commons

  June 2, 2026, 40 min, Transcript: —

  A critique of growth-oriented urban greening and a degrowth framework centred on access.

• S2 E5

  Cooling the City: Thermal Justice as Mental Health Equity

  May 26, 2026, 36 min, Transcript: —

  Thermal wellbeing as a mental-health and climate-justice issue.

• S2 E4

  Beyond the Automobile: Reclaiming Streets for Well-Being

  May 19, 2026, 37 min, Transcript: —

  How car-dependent design affects mental health and social connection.

• S2 E3

  On Consent! Breaking the Chains: Dismantling Patriarchal Submission from Within

  May 12, 2026, 39 min, Transcript: —

  How patriarchal spaces enforce submission through limited choices.

• S2 E2

  Menstrual Justice in the City: Reclaiming Public Space for All Bodies

  May 5, 2026, 37 min, Transcript: —

  Menstrual exclusion built into urban infrastructure.

• S2 E1

  The Body as Text: Black Queer Feminist Pedagogy in Action

  April 28, 2026, 39 min, Transcript: —

  Black queer feminist embodiment as knowledge, and parks as living classrooms.

• S2 E0

  Lost in Translation, Found in Resistance: Feminist Texts Crossing Borders

  April 21, 2026, 34 min, Transcript: —

  How censorship and translation shape access to feminist knowledge, with a focus on China.

• S1 E28

  Urban Heat, Mental Health & Climate Gentrification: Designing Feminist Cooling Spaces for All

  December 23, 2025, 36 min, Transcript: —

  Urban heat is not just a weather issue; it is a mental-health and justice issue.

• S1 E27

  Patriarchy in Design: A Feminist Critique of Public Space in Iran

  December 16, 2025, 52 min, Transcript: —

  A feminist critique of public-space design in Iran, focusing on women-only parks developed after 1979.

• S1 E26

  Green Spaces & Wellbeing: International Student Experiences in Berlin

  December 9, 2025, 43 min, Transcript: —

  Urban green space and the wellbeing of international students in Berlin.

• S1 E25

  The Paradox of Greening: Social Inclusivity in Urban Green Spaces

  December 2, 2025, 42 min, Transcript: —

  Is greening the city always socially inclusive?

• S1 E24

  Justice for Refugee Children: Accessing Green Spaces in Berlin

  November 25, 2025, 35 min, Transcript: —

  Environmental justice in Berlin through refugee children's access to green space.

• S1 E23

  Green Gentrification: A Longitudinal Analysis in Barcelona

  November 18, 2025, 36 min, Transcript: —

  A longitudinal and spatial analysis of green gentrification in Barcelona.

• S1 E22

  Ecosystems in the City: Mapping Services in Barcelona's Urban Region

  November 9, 2025, 63 min, Transcript: —

  Defining, measuring and mapping ecosystem services in the Barcelona metropolitan region.

• S1 E21

  Men in Feminism: Moving Beyond Performative Support

  November 4, 2025, 31 min, Transcript: —

  How men can show up in feminism beyond performative support.

• S1 E20

  Real-World Inclusivity: Gender-Sensitive Park Design in Practice

  October 28, 2025, 39 min, Transcript: —

  Principles and implementation of gender-sensitive park design.

• S1 E19

  Beyond Binaries: Why Gender-Segregated Parks Fail All – Lessons from Iran's Single-Sex Parks

  October 21, 2025, 48 min, Transcript: —

  What makes an urban park effective and loved, and what single-sex parks teach us.

• S1 E18

  Equality Dashboards: Measuring Gender-Inclusive Urban Planning

  October 14, 2025, 39 min, Transcript: —

  Measuring accessible, inclusive and well-designed public space.

• S1 E17

  Honoring Jane Goodall: Empathy and Ethical Kinship and the Feminist Park

  October 7, 2025, 34 min, Transcript: —

  A tribute to Jane Goodall, exploring empathy and ethical kinship.

• S1 E16

  Gendered Urban Experiences: Control, Disorder & Metropolis Interactions

  September 30, 2025, 55 min, Transcript: —

  Gendered experiences of urban space, control and disorder.

• S1 E15

  Man vs Bear? Gender and Safety in Natural Environments

  September 23, 2025, 40 min, Transcript: —

  How gender shapes experiences of natural environments with different vegetation density (Bornioli & Gatersleben).

• S1 E14

  The Hidden Cost of “Going”: How Public Toilets Expose Urban Inequality

  September 16, 2025, 42 min, Transcript: —

  What public toilets reveal about a city's inclusivity.

• S1 E13

  Why Women in Cities Matter: From Insecurity to Rights to the City

  September 7, 2025, 45 min, Transcript: —

  Gender, urban insecurity and the right to the city (Linda Peake and Geraldine Pratt).

• S1 E12

  Pedaling Towards Equity: Increasing Women's Participation in Cycling

  August 31, 2025, 28 min, Transcript: —

  A qualitative study of what supports or limits women's cycling.

• S1 E11

  The Gendered Commute: Unpacking Transport in the Urban Environment

  August 24, 2025, 38 min, Transcript: —

  How gender shapes everyday travel through the city.

• S1 E10

  Designing for Safety: Perceptions & Interventions in Public Space

  August 17, 2025, 30 min, Transcript: —

  How urban design influences feelings of safety.

• S1 E9

  Public Space & Diversity: Uncovering Systems of Exclusion

  August 10, 2025, 34 min, Transcript: —

  An engaged anthropological approach to public space and exclusion.

• S1 E8

  Unpacking the Urban: A Comprehensive Guide to City Studies

  August 3, 2025, 45 min, Transcript: —

  An overview of urban studies and its many perspectives.

• S1 E7

  Utopian Visions: Feminism & Ideal Societies

  July 27, 2025, 28 min, Transcript: —

  Where feminism and utopian thinking meet.

• S1 E6

  Claiming Space: An Engaged Anthropology of Public Spaces

  July 20, 2025, 30 min, Transcript: —

  Lefebvre and the social production of space.

• S1 E5

  Feminist Capitalism Critique: Unpacking Systems of Domination

  July 13, 2025, 58 min, Transcript: —

  An introduction to feminist critiques of capitalism.

• S1 E4

  Fresh Eyes: Feminist Analyses of Urban Spaces

  July 6, 2025, 55 min, Transcript: —

  Student papers offering feminist analyses of urban spaces.

• S1 E3

  Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World (Leslie Kern)

  June 29, 2025, 37 min, Transcript: —

  How women navigate and claim space in cities designed around male experience.

• S1 E2

  Green Spaces & Minds: Gender, Urban Nature & Mental Health

  June 22, 2025, 38 min, Transcript: —

  A systematic review on gender, urban green space and mental health (Fernández Núñez et al.).

• S1 E1

  The Data Gap: Unpacking Invisible Experiences in Urban Design

  June 15, 2025, 38 min, Transcript: —

  The gender data gap and its consequences for urban design (Caroline Criado Perez).

Suggest research for an episode

Have you written or read a peer-reviewed paper on public space, gender, safety, environmental justice, queer or trans experiences of green space, or decolonial design? Email us the PDF and tell us why it matters to you, what surprised you, and how it connects to inclusive urban space. info.feministpark@gmail.com