Gender-Inclusive Planning and Design for Los Angeles Parks
Student Work
Carolyn Chu
August 2022
Urban planning theory and practice have created gendered environments that favor the needs of cisgender men. These gendered spatial practices profoundly impact the health, daily lives, and safety of women and nonbinary people. Racial and ethnic identity, income and socioeconomic status, ability, cisgender or transgender identities, and sexual orientation — among many other axes of difference — impact the ways in which women move through and interact with public space.
