Gerda Wekerlé

Biographic Data

ID	2082390
NAME	Gerda Wekerlé
GIVEN NAMES	Gerda
FAMILY NAME	Wekerlé
SIGNATURE	WEKERLÉ G
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	4
TOTAL CITATIONS	9
WORKS AS AUTHOR	2
WORKS AS EDITOR	2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2006
H-INDEX	2

From Surf to Turf
Gene Desfor, Roger Keil et al.ARTICLEStudies in Political Economy2006Cited by: 7
In their analysis of growth policies and planning in Toronto in From Surf to Turf: No Limits to Growth in Toronto?, Gene Desfor, Roger Keil, Stefan Kipfer, and Gerda Wekerle argue that the widely accepted characterization of the visions in conflict — one urban and reform, the other suburban and developer-dominated — is oversimplified. Tracing the changing discourses of governance, they show that the development of Toronto today as a competitive c…
De la «coveillance» à la ville sûre
Gerda Wekerlé, Anne QuerrienARTICLELes Annales de la Recherche Urbaine1999Cited by: 2
Le sentiment partagé de sécurité dans l'espace urbain était pour Jane Jacobs le critère majeur d'un urbanisme idéal. Une trop grande ouverture de ces espaces engendre selon elle la peur des habitants, notamment des femmes. Ces idées ont été dévoyées par les méthodes de «prévention situationnelle » prônant la clôture spatiale et sociale. Mais elles se diffusent et s'appliquent avec l'intervention d'associations féministes dans l'aménagement des qu…
From the Welfare State to Vampire Capitalism
Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Patricia Evans et al.EDITORCHAPTERWomen and the Canadian Welfare…1997
Social policy as a progressive force has been more or less dead in Can-ada for the past ten years. ' The optimism of feminists in the 1970s- that government policy could be changed to reflect women's needs- has been replaced by the desperate realization that even the few redistribu-tive gains women worked so hard to achieve are being reversed? Women's political activism focused on the state continues, but it is activ-ism to hold on to what remain…
Women and the Canadian Welfare State
Patricia Evans, Gerda WekerléEDITORBOOKWomen and the Canadian Welfare…1997
Canadians can no longer expect as much from their governments. Rights formerly guaranteed by our 'welfare state' are disappearing. Social spending has been cut drastically in an attempt to combat recession, globalization and restructuring, and the deficit. The decline of the welfare state poses special risks for women. The policies, benefits, and services of the welfare state are directly linked to women's basic freedoms. The welfare state employ…

From the Welfare State to Vampire Capitalism
Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Patricia Evans et al.EDITORCHAPTERWomen and the Canadian Welfare…1997
Social policy as a progressive force has been more or less dead in Can-ada for the past ten years. ' The optimism of feminists in the 1970s- that government policy could be changed to reflect women's needs- has been replaced by the desperate realization that even the few redistribu-tive gains women worked so hard to achieve are being reversed? Women's political activism focused on the state continues, but it is activ-ism to hold on to what remain…
Women and the Canadian Welfare State
Patricia Evans, Gerda WekerléEDITORBOOKWomen and the Canadian Welfare…1997
Canadians can no longer expect as much from their governments. Rights formerly guaranteed by our 'welfare state' are disappearing. Social spending has been cut drastically in an attempt to combat recession, globalization and restructuring, and the deficit. The decline of the welfare state poses special risks for women. The policies, benefits, and services of the welfare state are directly linked to women's basic freedoms. The welfare state employ…
De la «coveillance» à la ville sûre
Gerda Wekerlé, Anne QuerrienARTICLELes Annales de la Recherche Urbaine1999Cited by: 2
Le sentiment partagé de sécurité dans l'espace urbain était pour Jane Jacobs le critère majeur d'un urbanisme idéal. Une trop grande ouverture de ces espaces engendre selon elle la peur des habitants, notamment des femmes. Ces idées ont été dévoyées par les méthodes de «prévention situationnelle » prônant la clôture spatiale et sociale. Mais elles se diffusent et s'appliquent avec l'intervention d'associations féministes dans l'aménagement des qu…
From Surf to Turf
Gene Desfor, Roger Keil et al.ARTICLEStudies in Political Economy2006Cited by: 7
In their analysis of growth policies and planning in Toronto in From Surf to Turf: No Limits to Growth in Toronto?, Gene Desfor, Roger Keil, Stefan Kipfer, and Gerda Wekerle argue that the widely accepted characterization of the visions in conflict — one urban and reform, the other suburban and developer-dominated — is oversimplified. Tracing the changing discourses of governance, they show that the development of Toronto today as a competitive c…