In June 2015, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, launched a consultation on the redevelopment of seven major Parisian squares: Bastille, Fêtes, Gambetta, Italie, Madeleine, Nation and Panthéon. In 2018, a plan for the Place du Panthéon – one that is inclusive and designed with gender considerations in mind – was unveiled.

With the ‘Réinventons nos places’ project, this marked the first time in Paris that gender standards had been incorporated as a project requirement in a public tender for urban development. The project management for Place du Panthéon was entrusted to the collective ‘Les MonumentalEs ’. It comprises architects, town planners, landscape architects, sociologists, a consultancy specialising in sustainable development, and ‘gender experts’: the urban innovation platform ‘Genre et Ville’¹. 1 http://www.genre-et-ville.org/ Genre et Ville seeks to reveal and measure inequalities and identity norms across different areas; to examine what created them and what perpetuates them; and to bring about change in gender relations in the city through a variety of original initiatives, as well as through reflection and discussion