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Urban and land planning questions give too little room to gender perspectives. Usually more associated with societal debates, the question of gender would be ill-suited to the conceptualization of the urban and metropolitan reality, at least according to the French conception of land and urban planning policies, on a theoretical as well as on an operational level. The way one « occupies space » and is authorized to do so in contemporary forms of urbanity shows that the question of gender falls within the history of social urban struggles but also within a contemporary public action inspired by ideologies of urban well-being and urban ecology. This article identifies the joint effects of feminist and ecological ideals in the present field of urban conception. The study of the use of natural spaces in the city of Grenoble shows the impact of an androcentric and heteronormative approach to natural spaces, be it in the fields of practice, representations or management of these sites.