Prioritizing the Needs of Women in Urban Public Spaces

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1 Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Department. Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

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10.22059/jrd.2024.374635.668850

Abstract

In this article, an attempt was made to identify and prioritize women's most important priorities and needs in urban public spaces. Then, urban and gendered public spaces were compared in terms of whether they reflect women's needs. The methodological approach in this article is Mixed Method. In the first phase, a systematic review of 21 articles was performed, and their findings were synthesized using basic coding. In the second phase, a questionnaire was designed and presented to two groups of women (30 people) in two urban public spaces with similar functions (a cultural and a city center). Women's needs were prioritized using AHP hierarchical analysis. The needs of women in public spaces can be defined in 3 main social, physical, and psychological categories. Then, by adding the economic dimension and indicators such as cost, quality, and variety of services, a questionnaire was prepared and was rated by women users in two urban public spaces. The three most important priorities of women's needs in two urban public spaces are related to the indicators including security and peace of women in the complex (rank 1), cost of services (rank 2), and lighting and the manner of facing and behavior of employees in the complex (rank 3) and three indicators which were the least important for female respondents including the absence of the feeling of being oppressed due to the presence of men (rank 12), the existence of a unique space for women without the presence of men (rank 11), the existence of space to interact with friends, and the existence of space to take care of children (rank 10).

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Community Development (Rural and Urban)

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Available Online from 15 June 2024

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