Urban quality audit from a gender perspective.
The Urban Quality Audit from a Gender Perspective (ACUG) is an urban assessment tool that allows checking the application of a gender perspective in urban planning, both in spaces and in management, based on the comprehensive analysis of social, physical and functional aspects of a specific environment.
The audit proposes an assessment incorporating different agents as well as knowledge. It has been designed so that local administrations can apply it on the temporal and spatial scale of the neighborhood, since it focuses and deepens into a specific nearby environment where specific people live.
This manual includes the qualitative tools used to develop a participatory assessment, including the experience of the people: exploratory walks, participatory observation, participatory dynamics and interviews. In the chapter on Evaluation of urban space, we develop a system of indicators for the three types of spaces evaluated based on five urban qualities necessary to respond to the needs of everyday life, considering physical, social and functional aspects: proximity, diversity, autonomy, vitality and representativeness. In the chapter on Evaluation of urban management, the guide includes indicators that evaluate gender mainstreaming in the management of socio-spatial contexts, considering three necessary qualities: multi-scale, interdisciplinary, participatory.
It also includes examples of the application of these indicators in different municipalities in Catalonia and in a neighborhood in Buenos Aires.