Leslie Weisman
-Quotes from: “Spatial Agency: Leslie Kanes Weisman.” http://www.spatialagency.net/database/why/political/weisman.
In Discrimination by Design, Weisman describes the racial, class and gendered power balances involved in building and controlling space. Focusing most specifically on feminist questions she She traces the social and architectural histories of the skyscraper, maternity hospital, , shopping mall, American dream house, and public housing buildings. She raises and examines key questions about gender and the built environment: When and why do women feel unsafe in cities? Why did the 1990’s housing crisis make women more vulnerable than men? And what would change about the built environment (especially homes and communities) if they were designed to create and sustain relationships of class and social equality and environmental justice?
Weisman currently lives in Southold Town in Long Island, where she has been living since 2002 when she retired early and began a political career focused on serving on the zoning board and making planning and design decisions on a day-to-day basis.