Introduction, Caroline Andrew and Beth Moore Milroy; building women, building cities - toward gender sensitive theory in the environmental disciplines, Suzanne Mackenzie; women workers and the inner city - some implications of labour force restructuring in Montreal 1971-81, Damaris Rose and Paul Villeneuve, with Fiona Colgan; practical idealism - women in urban reform, Julia Drummond and the Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association, Jeanne M. Wolfe and Grace Strachan; divergent convergence - the daily routines of employed spouses as a public affairs agenda, William Michelson; Canadian women's housing co-operatives - case studies in physical and social innovation, Gerda R. Wekerle; new families, new housing needs, new urban environments - the case of single-parent families, Fran Klodawsky and Aron Spector; interacting with the urban environment - two case studies of women's and female adolescents' leisure activities, Denise Pich; gender-specific approaches to theory and method, Beth Moore Milroy and Caroline Andrew.