“I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels”

—  Rebecca Solnit

Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

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