Glasgow as the UK's First Feminist City in Urban Design

That the Parliament commends the pioneering policy work of Glasgow City Council, which established Glasgow as the UK’s first "Feminist City" following the passing of a landmark motion in October 2022; celebrates Glasgow City Council’s ongoing work under the leadership of chief planning officer, Sarah Shaw, to embed an intersectional feminist lens across urban design, planning, and local government policy; recognises what it sees as the vital contributions of leading architects, academics, and practitioners, including architect Jude Barber, Dr May East and Professor Suzanne Ewing from the University of Edinburgh whose research, expertise and advocacy continue to shape feminist urban design across Scotland; welcomes Glasgow’s commitment to improving the safety, accessibility, convenience and quality of public spaces through thoughtful design that directly incorporates the lived experiences and needs of women, girls, and people of marginalised genders to create more equitable places for all; highlights the development of Glasgow’s Feminist Planning Toolkit and Feminist City Strategy to guide planners, developers, communities, and council departments in implementing best-practice gender-sensitive processes, and endorses training within local authority teams to learn from academics and practitioners in identifying and challenging patterns of inequality and exclusion; invites the Scottish Government to build on Glasgow’s leadership by embedding feminist urban design principles into the National Planning Framework and national policy, ensuring that every town, city, and community across Scotland is designed to be equitable, safe and accessible for everyone.