Abstract:
In recent years many transformations have occurred in Iranian society and women and girls still have a lot of worries about comes to urban public spaces. Also, due to some ambiguities in defining the domain of public space in traditional Islamic cities and gaps in the knowledge related to the Kurdish cities, the main problem of this paper is how we can define a participatory approach to improvement of women’s safety in the urban public spaces of Saqqez city. This paper will examine the women’s participation role in the urban spaces safety by Participatory Urban Appraisal (PUA) model in south and north Imam Avenue, Republic Street and Quds avenue of Saqqez city. Applied methodology is based on librarian, documents and field studies. Statistical society of current research was including 200 citizens, experts and urban officials. In order to, sampling method is simple random sampling. Morgan's sample size estimation table was used to determine size of samples. Finally, Data’s were analyzed through SPSS and Excel software’s. It is presented some solve ways in the framework of SWOT strategy. Results showed that the index of city street furniture in Republic street with providing more favorable conditions of women's satisfaction with 29% of the Quds street, south Imam Khomeini street with 18% and 12% were in north Imam Khomeini street. Other indicators also had a similar situation. Finally, presented some solve ways using SWOT model.
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Urban Public Spaces and Women’s Safety: A Participatory Approach of Saqqez Streets, Iran 1Barat Ali Khakpoor, 2Akbar Heydari, 3Shirin Sabaghi 1 Associated Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
In other hand, Bertoliny Table 1: Some theories and indexes in urban space planning with respect to mobility theories (Source: Kashanijou, 2010) Key note Year Title Theorist Keep of pedestrians, Climate, Pedestrians crossing of urban green space 1917 Industrial city Garnie Sidewalk which provides the highest level of contact with an urban place The priority of pedestrians in urban spaces and upgrade the quality of sidewalks 1960 Architecture of cities and towns 1968 New York, a study on quality, identity and definition of participation Regen Halprine Continuous movement of people and public urban spaces 1968 Urban public space designing Baken Position and movement of citizens in urban spaces 1996 Analysis of space alignment Hallier and Gist (1999a, 2003b) believe that an available public space is a space that not only many different people can go there, but it’s a place that people can have a variety of activities there.
Morgan's sample size Urban Public Spaces and Women’s Safety in Saqqez city Iranian Society Case study Region Kurdish Society Imam Avenue Republic Street Quds avenue Sanandaj Saqqez Parameters Land uses Age ranking of sample size Urban furniture Up 65 51- 65 34- 51 (50) 17- 34 (50) Designing for women’s Participatory Urban Appraisal Preparation Meetings Analysis of Information and Strategies Implementation Conclusion Suggestions Fig. 1: Conceptual Diagram of Research.