From Parking Lots to Parks: The Mortality Benefits of Green Cities
Season 2 Episode: 22.
Quantifies mortality benefits of converting car infrastructure to green space, providing evidence-based justification for car-free, green-centered urban design.
Summary: Quantifies the life-saving potential of converting parking and roads to green space (improved air quality, reduced heat).Connection: Prioritizes greening in communities facing the highest health burdens and advocates for converting parking space to park extensions.
Key Takeaways: • Converting 50% of car-dedicated space to greenery significantly reduces mortality• Reallocating space from cars to nature improves air quality and climate resilience• Urban parks are critical sustainability infrastructure, not mere amenities• Environmental justice must be core to park management to protect low-income residents• Green space provision directly impacts public health outcomes and life expectancy
Keywords: Berlin, urban parks, socio-economic inequality, climate resilience, systematic review.
Keywords: Green space, mortality assessment, Paris, urban health, car-free cities.
Source: Replacing car-dedicated space with green spaces: an assessment of the mortality benefits in Paris, Léo Moutet, Lucie Adélaïde, Charles Claron, et al.
Source: Review article: Reviewing Berlin’s urban parks, S. Mukherjee, KN, KMN, ER, SH, and BS
The Feminist Park is a pioneering intersectional feminist urban initiative that reimagines public green space through the lived experiences of women, migrants, LGBTQI+ people, and racialised communities. Rooted in care ethics, anti-racism, and queer theory, the project challenges the androcentric design of cities by co-creating inclusive, safe, and ecologically regenerative parks. By combining rigorous scientific research with grassroots feminist praxis, the Feminist Park advocates for the right to the city for all bodies,particularly those historically excluded from public space. Learn more and join the movement at www.feminist-park.org.

Urban Commons as Citizenship: Participation and Belonging in Bologna
Season 2 Episode:21. September 15, 2026
Models collaborative management of urban commons as pathway to expanded citizenship, demonstrating how co-governance strengthens democratic participation and territorial belonging.
Summary: Bologna’s model shows that commons management allows migrants (excluded from formal citizenship) to practice "urban citizenship."Connection: Treats the park as a commons with management authority given to residents regardless of legal citizenship status, creating pathways to political power.
Key Takeaways: • Collaborative management of urban commons fosters territorial participation• Co-management strengthens democratic participation and urban citizenship• Commons governance creates new frameworks for right to the city• Shared city management empowers diverse residents as active citizens• Urban commons enable forms of belonging beyond traditional citizenship
Keywords: Urban commons, participation, urban citizenship, Bologna, territorialism.
Source: Urban commons as a concept of territorial participation and urban citizenship: Two case studies in Bologna, Italy, Charmain Levy, Marco Alberio, and Rebecca Plachesi
The Feminist Park is a pioneering intersectional feminist urban initiative that reimagines public green space through the lived experiences of women, migrants, LGBTQI+ people, and racialised communities. Rooted in care ethics, anti-racism, and queer theory, the project challenges the androcentric design of cities by co-creating inclusive, safe, and ecologically regenerative parks. By combining rigorous scientific research with grassroots feminist praxis, the Feminist Park advocates for the right to the city for all bodies,particularly those historically excluded from public space. Learn more and join the movement at www.feminist-park.org.

Intersectional Resilience: Justice at the Interface of Health Systems
Season 2 Episode:20. September 08, 2026
Applies intersectionality theory to understand how overlapping identities create unique vulnerabilities, informing our commitment to addressing structural inequality in park access and programming.
Summary: Uses intersectionality theory to show how standard resilience frameworks fail multiply-marginalized people during crises like COVID-19.Connection: Explicitly addresses intersectional needs with gender-neutral facilities, language access, and programming for racialized queer migrant women.
Key Takeaways: • Overlapping social identities create unique vulnerabilities and barriers to care• Resilience is not just institutional capacity but addressing structural inequality• Health system resilience requires justice at interfaces where systems meet communities• Intersectionality theory reveals how systems fail multiply-marginalized people• Community resilience depends on social justice, not just service provision
Keywords: Intersectionality, health system resilience, community health, social justice.
Source: Justice at the Interface: Advancing Community and Health System Resilience Through Intersectionality Theory, Jen Roux, Neelke Doorn, Saba Hinrichs-Krapels, and Samantha Copeland
The Feminist Park is a pioneering intersectional feminist urban initiative that reimagines public green space through the lived experiences of women, migrants, LGBTQI+ people, and racialised communities. Rooted in care ethics, anti-racism, and queer theory, the project challenges the androcentric design of cities by co-creating inclusive, safe, and ecologically regenerative parks. By combining rigorous scientific research with grassroots feminist praxis, the Feminist Park advocates for the right to the city for all bodies,particularly those historically excluded from public space. Learn more and join the movement at www.feminist-park.org.