Edinburgh, the UK’s wokest city
by Graham Grant, Scottish Daily Mail:
Council to undertake a feminist approach to town planning, including statues for the ‘queer community’.
Scotland’s capital city is to be given a makeover to improve safety for ‘people of marginalised genders’ – including plans to commission statues representing the ‘queer community’.
The City of Edinburgh Council will undertake a feminist approach to town planning under the proposals, which could lead to radical changes to how the city looks and operates.
Plans include erecting statues of ‘named women of colour, queer women and ordinary women who aren’t the ruling classes’, after the council’s planning committee backed proposals for greater ‘gender equality’ through ‘design and culture’.
The council is looking to Europe for inspiration including cities such as Vienna and Barcelona which have respectively published manuals called ‘Gender mainstreaming made easy’, and a handbook on ‘urban planning with a gender perspective’.
Recommendations include wider pavements, more benches in public spaces, improved lighting, ramps for wheelchairs and buggies and visible commemorations of women and the queer community.
The equality drive comes after council chiefs in Edinburgh set up a Low Emission Zone, in common with other cities such as Glasgow, to fine drivers of older vehicles which are deemed not to be environmentally friendly, prompting claims of discrimination against Scots who cannot afford to buy a newer vehicle.
Council bosses in Edinburgh – where a minority Labour administration is in charge – are working on a public art strategy that will consider its monuments and statues.
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