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The publication "Frauen Bauen Stadt" (Women Building Cities) by the editors Wojciech Czaja and Katja Schechtner portrays a total of 18 female architects from Elizabeth Diller to Emily Warren Roebling and, in interdisciplinary interviews, explores the question of how urban planning presents itself in theory and practice from a female perspective and which role female designers, architects and urban planners will assume in the industry in the future. In the documentary "Women Build. Wie Architektinnen die Baukunst erobern" by Johanna Behre, female architects such as Regula Lüscher or Sabina Riß also give statements on all aspects of their profession: leadership and authority, genius cult, creativity, pressure, competition, understanding of roles and social responsibility. Two well-done publications that go beyond stereotypes and clichés to show how women architects shape our world. (am)