Women's Design Service Publications

Re-Moving the Goalposts: Perspectives on Women and Regeneration
230x210mm 98pp 2002 £10-18

This guide is designed to be a useful working tool for all those involved with regeneration and renewal partnership boards and other decision-making bodies connected with urban regeneration and renewal. It is intended to promote inclusive working practices and encourage the continuing development and practice of processes that harness local skills and knowledge.

The guide is primarily based on community research and development work carried out by the Women and Regeneration Project, with local women in three London regeneration areas between 1999-2001.

It seeks to generate understanding of the barriers faced by the diverse communities of women living in regeneration areas and to suggest ways in which those barriers can be overcome. The guide includes checklists to assess to what extent decision-making bodies are working inclusively. These tools for practical steps towards inclusiveness aim to assist partnerships in their work.

Housing for Independence: disabled women informing inclusive design principles and policy 210x210mm 107pp 2000 £10-18

An action guide to herald the start the of the 21st century exploring how current housing design and allocation processes impact on the lives of disabled women and what needs to change. It provides evidence from disabled women profile participants and focus groups about their housing experiences and requirements. This guide provides essential information for housing associations, architects, planners, occupational therapists, allocation and access officers. It is also intended to be useful for individuals and disability organisations campaigning for more accessible and flexible housing forms.

This illustrated guide promotes integrated and inclusive housing design principles and processes that will support disabled women to lead their chosen lifestyles and reduce the social discrimination they are currently experiencing as a result of inappropriate mainstream housing forms.

Priced £18 (Concessionary rates: £14 to community and voluntary organisations and £10 to individuals on low incomes).

Making Safer Places
210x300 88pp 1998 £15

A resource book for conducting neighbourhood safety audits based on projects with youth and community groups undertaken by Women's Design Service. Includes an outline of the audit process, activities and exercises; ten case studies: factsheets and useful contacts about the built environment.

Good Practice Manual On Tenant Participation
210x295mm 176pp 1997 £8.00

Explains what is involved in being a tenant or professional partner in a Government-funded regeneration or redevelopment project. Offers a glossary of terms, steps to be taken in a project, action sheets on what to ask as a project progresses, Golden Rules, and a list of contacts.
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Designing Housing For Older Women
240x300mm 74pp 1992 £6.50

Examines some of the options for housing available to women as they get older, and studies how well different types of housing can meet their varying needs. Several housing projects are assessed, and guidelines are offered for improving future housing provisions. Illustrated.

At Women's Convenience
210x210mm 84pp 1990 £6.50

Every woman is aware of the deficiencies of most public toilet provision. This, the only complete study of women's public conveniences, gives the history of public toilets, looks at the facilities presently available in London and elsewhere in Britain, and gives detailed design recommendations, based on such guidelines as environmental impact, accessibility, safety and convenience. Illustrated.

Thinking Of Small Children
210x300mm 36pp 1988 £3.50

Produced with the We Welcome Small Children Campaign and the London Borough of Camden, this guide addresses the problems faced by carers of young children when out in public spaces, and provides designs for a range of facilities, from nappy-changing areas to restaurants, libraries to waiting areas.

Women's Safety On Housing Estates
210x300mm 27pp 1988 £6.50

Examines the factors influencing women's feelings of safety on a range of housing estates, and assesses the potential for decreasing or eliminating threats through design or community action. Illustrated.

Lesbians And Transport
210x300mm Two-page leaflet Free

Part of the Women & Transport commissioned by the GLC, this leaflet considers the problems of lesbians who use public transport in London, based on a wide-ranging questionnaire.