Investing the adaptation of Urmia Urban Public Spaces to the needs of women

One of the main goals of designing of urban space is that the urban public spaces provide a place for all age, employment and gender groups. Designing an effective model for consolidation and the presence of actors as active citizens is not possible without identifying features and their needs. Therefore, this study is conducted to evaluate the adaptation of Urmia urban spaces to the needs of women. In this regard, first of all conceptual model and a self-made questionnaire was designed with using the theory of utility of space, and were distributed among 400 women in Urmia that the women were selected with Using Cochran formula and on the basis of classified samples. Validity of questionnaire was provided with using formal validity and divergent validity which was obtained through factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used for determining its reliability. The amount of this coefficient was equal to 0.87 which reliability shows desirable. In this study, the SPSS software has been used as a tool of analyzing and evaluating the data. The results of this study indicate that there is not general satisfaction in the field of physical measures, access and security in urban public spaces while there is women's satisfaction about cultural and social measures, based on criteria of the study.