The Athena Series is one of the most powerful ideas I've heard about. I would encourage everyone to read the book when published, particularly if they are interested in women's perspective on cities.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker

One of the great things about the Athena Talks in Stockholm is that it is such an intensely organized event with an impressive diversity of ideas and an amazing efflorescence of urban approaches and perspectives. This lively assemblage of leading female urban scholars will have long-term consequences in regard to future debates on architecture and urban design, surely providing a vigorous discussion at the present.

Michael Sorkin, late distinguished professor of architecture of the City University of New York, architectural critic, writer, urbanist and president of Terreform

This volume brings together an incredible collection of essays by leading female urbanists. Based on their Athena Lectures at Sweden's KTH University, its chapters provide tremendous insight into the organization and challenges of contemporary cities, charting the way forward to a more diverse, inclusive, and sustainable urbanism for the 21st century.

Richard Florida, professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Who's Your City? and The New Urban Crisis.

How can we know the contemporary city? Let us count the ways…
This anthology is a comprehensive introduction to contemporary urban theories and perspectives, from politicized social concerns, to evidence-based conceptions of human and ecosystem health, to historical and evolving cultures, to physical and digital forms. Presented by a unique assembly of powerful scholars, a myriad of topics will enrich the reader's knowledge of contemporary urbanism and the interaction of humans and nature in built form.
And what better way to learn about so many urban aspects than by reading and listening to women scholars!

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, professor at the University of Miami's School of Architecture, co-founder of Congress for New Urbanism, architect, planner, and co-author of Suburban Nation and The New Civic Art

Only Tigran Haas could have put together such an astonishing book by some of the greatest female contemporary urban scholars in the world. And in our collapsing world, it is precisely the urban question - and what kind of cities and forms of living-together do we build - that might as well determine our future.

Srecko Horvat, philosopher, political activist, and author of After the Apocalypse and the Signs of the Postmodern City

Women Reclaiming the City is an important compilation of female contemporary urban scholars filling a real knowledge gap: this is a unique anthology that has emerged from a series of lectures presented at KTH in Stockholm, illuminating the relevant role these distinguished scholars are playing in urban studies today.

Dr. Steffan Lehmann, author of The Principles of Green Urbanism and Urban Regeneration, professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of Nevada, director of Urban Futures Lab