Evaluation of Women's Parks by AHP Model (Case study: Tabriz Metropolitan)

Women’s parks and green spaces are one of the important welfare and recreational centers. These parks play an important role in urban sustainable development and improvement of women’s quality of life in addition to meeting their health and mental needs. This research aims to evaluate the performance of women’s parks in Tabriz based on the land usage and social criteria. For doing so، women’s parks in Tabriz were investigated by AHP model based on urban land usage criteria (availability، compatibility، neighborhood، etc.) and social criteria (privatization and women needs). This investigation indicates that Tabriz women’s parks are not covered in all areas and construction of new women’s parks is necessary. Compatibility of these parks is located in relatively good condition from compatibility point of view and neighborhood usage. According to the social criteria، the users believe that these parks lack optimal privacy index and they are seen from surrounding tall buildings. The studies of the women needs showed that these parks have optimal performance in meeting women needs (weight loss، calmness، increase of efficiency and joyfulness، empowerment of friendly gatherings and self-esteem). In general، the results showed that most of the women’s parks in Tabriz have 66. 6% medium functional fitness and % 33. 4 low fitness indexes.