Post 1: Gender & Urban Landscapes

The first text that was selected for analyzation is Liz Bondi's, Gender Symbols and Urban Landscapes. Gender is an elemental, omnipresent and presumed facet of urban life. It is an authoritative measure of urban integrity, an arbor of urban discrimination, and it enlivens the everyday rituals that define and comprise cities, and the lives of those who live within them. Gender is also a complicated and shifty idea that holds an expanse of interconnected connotations. In addition to that this essay also addresses language and the usage within particular different areas are far permanent or comprehensible. 

While reading this text one contemplates three types of gender inquirys of urban life, these address gender through exemplify identification, communal affiliations, and functionality appropriately. As a measure of exemplified identities, gender spotlights on how everyday urban occurrences correlate to, and are affected by, the corporal classifications “male” and “female”. While gender is epitomized by singular human beings it doesn't dwell as a whole within human bodies but is produced at the intersections between human bodies and the ambiance that besieges them. As a aspect of those encircling  atmospheres, it comprises a social affiliation or formulated standard of urban life. Gendered people mobilize significations or writings of of gender, thus the concept of gender as utterance noted in everyday lives. The reading analyzes how each perception to gender notifies comprehension of urban life and bring to the forefront, the particularity of cities.