Women are erased from urban planning. At most, it costs us our lives

Featured story on Medium, September 2018

Eurydice Dixon and Iuliana Todos lived 10,000 miles apart — Dixon in Melbourne and Todos in London. Both had tight-knit groups of friends and bright, happy futures, and both died within months of one another in horribly similar circumstances — murdered at night by sadistic men in unlit empty parks. The press in both countries couldn’t help but victim blame — what were these young women doing, walking through dark parks late at night? It is the wrong question, for a whole host of reasons. Firstly, of course, we have to ask: what are these men doing? And secondly… why are the parks so bloody dark?

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