Articles by Cătălina Frâncu

April 8, 2024

🌊 How illiberalism threatens the urban freedoms of women and marginalised groups

Cătălina Frâncu

In recent decades, real progress has been made to inclusivity in urban policies and in access to urban spaces. Cătălina Frâncu warns these gains are now under threat. Here, she explores the impact of illiberalism on the exclusion of women and marginalised groups from urban public spaces

Cătălina Frâncu

Master's Candidate, Gender, Minorities and Policy Studies, 	National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest / Deputy Editor, Zeppelin Architecture Magazine

Cătălina is an architect currently working on an analysis of the dimension of gender in Romania’s governmental development strategies for territory.

Zeppelin Architecture Magazine

She is an editor and ongoing contributor to Zeppelin Architecture Magazine and has been involved in various projects with the Romanian Order of Architects on urban inclusion, architectural market analysis, built heritage, and other matters.

She is coordinating the current issue of Analize Journal of Feminist Studies on Illiberalism, Gender, and Urban Planning, and she is an active member of the first feminist NGO in Romania, The Romanian Society for Feminist Analysis AnA.

Cătălina graduated in architecture from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville.

She is a contributor to Oameni la lucru în casele lor [At Work At Home]
Universitara Ion Mincu, 2021

Among other writings, Cătălina has a monograph forthcoming on the Romanian architecture office ADN BA.

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