“What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?”: City and Community (2002)

Neither the Chicago School at the beginning of the 20th century nor the Los Angeles School at its end adequately incorporated gender relations into theories of urban structure. Yet women’s options in 1900 centered around the home, while their options in 2000 incorporated the workplace as well. The “walking city” of urban nostalgia still existed after home and work were separated for men. Only when women began to leave the home as well (in conjunction with the advent of the automobile) did the real spatial revolution begin.