Faculty Research Colloquium: Urban planning has been largely ineffective in addressing urban violence and particularly slow in responding to gender violence. This paper explores the public and private divide, structural inequalities, and issues of ethnicity and citizenship, in terms of their planning implications for gender violence. Drawing on evidence from Latino Chicago, I examine how economic and social planning and gender violence intertwine. The Chicago case demonstrates that the challenge is not only breaking constructed structural inequalities and divisions between public and private spheres, but also to promote changes in the working models of institutions and organizations. While Latino-serving organizations provide services, they also in many cases reproduce forms of gender violence within the organization, both toward clients and toward their own lower-level workers.