At the London Festival of Architecture this year Pollard Thomas Edwards will be hosting an online women-led debate on the creation of inclusive neighbourhoods. My city, your city, everybody’s city will draw upon recent findings published which state: “Cities work better for men … than for women,” with the lack of women – just 10 per cent - in senior jobs at leading architecture firms, a problem. That figure rises to 57 per cent at PTE, putting us in a good position to lead the debate around how we can make our cities more inclusive for everyone.

Given its traction among developers, architects and politicians, our expert panel (TBA) will focus on how the 15-minute city idea can be implemented in a fundamentally inclusive manner, to create a physical environment that looks beyond the needs of the until-now typical subject – the able-bodied ‘straight’ adult male.