The pier is yet another popular tourist attraction in LA. I decided to head over to the pier on a sunny Friday with a few friends. With a nice beach, rides, and shopping, it's a pretty popular area. Aside from just tourists, college students frequent this area a lot because it's relatively cheap and gives you lots of options for what to do. Many couples were on dates, friends were tanning on the beach, and kids were riding the ferris wheel.
The article I was reminded of was "City A/Genders" by Watson that discussed how cities don't cater to women. This article mentioned that in downtown business districts, because transportation favors people who work and people who work are mostly men, cities are geared for men. The central idea was that urban design marginalizes women in the same way that certain policies do.
The pier is not the part of the city that article was talking about. But what interested me was that I did notice a lot of women at and around the pier. My theory was that if it is really true that the centers of cities do not cater to women, maybe women are branching to different parts of the cities like Santa Monica where it's less busy, there are lots of high-end shops and it's a social atmosphere. Obviously this has no research to back it up but it was something that occurred to me while looking around.
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