Access, Safety, and Sol arity: Addressing Women’s Spatial Oppression The city is a rich starting point to philosophy and philosophizing, The countless engagements that occur within the city are more than enough to provide avenues for questioning and critical reflection. The city, too, is a fertile ground for feminist theory. While the urban space is regarded as the site of equality and liberation, we find upon closer examination that the reverse is also true: inequalities flourish in the city. Given that these inequalities are concretized in spatial relations, then feminist theorizing on the city foregrounds the gendered nature of these injustices and inequalities. Iorder to provide a concrete analysis of this spatial oppression, I intend to focus on three aspects of the urban experience which most clearly show the oppression: access, safety, and solidarity. Beginning with Thomas Gieryn’s insight into how places are constructed doubly, | proceed to show that the double construction is the same for cities, Cities are constructed on both the physical and the symbolic levels, The problem emerges when the construction takes place on account of what Carolyn Criado Perez calls a gender data gap; women-~-their needs, aspirations, lives---are simply not considered or given much value when we build and construct the urban landscape, Hence, we end up with an urban space that fails to provide women with safety, with access, and with opportunities for solidarity. We end up with cities that are not for women. What this work intends to show, therefore, is that because women’s oppression takes spatial form, has spatial implications, then addressing the oppression will also demand spatial solutions, Women’s lives must be regarded as a necessary and indispensable consideration in the way we construct our cities; otherwise, cities will only continue to be sites, not of liberation, but of injustice.