The Journal of Community Development (Rural-Urban)

The Journal of Community Development (Rural-Urban)

The effect of presence in women's space on women's right to the city with the role of motivating moderator (Case study: Women's parks in Isfahan)

Authors
Marzieh Safari 1
Ali Shamai 2
Ali Movahed 3
Parvaneh Shahhosseini 4
1 PhD student in Geography and Urban Planning, Kharazmi University
2 Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Planning
3 Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, Kharazmi University
4 Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Planning Samt
10.22059/jrd.2021.313733.668599
Abstract
The right to the city is defined as a new form of citizenship so that all citizens can control and participate in the production of urban space. Women, as half of the society, do not have the possibility of equal use of urban spaces compared to men, and as a result, gender spaces are formed. According to the gender perspective, the dominance of patriarchal power relations in urban spaces should also be considered so that all residents with different identity differences such as gender; to be able to enjoy their right to participate and the right to own urban spaces. Presence in the female space as an independent variable consists of four dimensions: security, accessibility, mobility, and openness and sound. Women's rights to the city as a dependent variable and motivation as a moderating variable. The statistical sample of the research using the test-based method is 247 people, which includes women over 14 years old who use women-only parks in Isfahan. Data collection is through questionnaires and data analysis, structural equation modeling with smart pls software. The results showed that presence in the women's space affected the right to the city of women and the variables of security and openness, and having a voice in the right to the city of women is also significant. The variable of motivation as a moderator has no moderating role on the causal relationship of presence in the female space to the right to the city of women.
Keywords
urban space
right to the city of women
women-only parks
the city of Isfahan
The Journal of Community Development (Rural-Urban)
Volume 12, Issue 2
March 2021
Pages 415-445