"Design can do more to reduce the built environment's capacity for enabling misogyny"

Women sick of feeling unsafe in their cities may need to consider disruption as a means of effecting change, writes Helen Parton.When women would rather be stuck in a forest with a bear than a man, according to a viral question on TikTok, that says a lot about women's negative relationship not just with those of opposite gender but also their surroundings.
My own lived experience as a woman in north London likely resonates with many women and others who feel marginalised in different urban space