Desirability Street Furniture Assessment of Urmia with Gender Approach

Investigating the quality of urban elements design in different historical periods and their effects on different age and sex groups is important for the smart design of urban furniture. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of street furniture in Urmia based on street age as well as gender attitude. In this regard, three streets of Imam and Kashani and 8 Shahrivar, Created during the first, second and after the Islamic Revolution, were investigated by descriptive-analytic method and inferential statistics. The statistical population in this study is citizens with experience of presence in all three streets and sample size was 450. For analysis and ranking of indices according to data type Friedman nonparametric test was used to measure differences in perception of environment and furniture choice between Both men and women used the Mann-Whitney test.The analysis of the importance and impact on urban furniture quality concluded that variety indicator in urban furniture design has the most impact on increasing or reducing the street environmental quality and the results of the study, according to the oldness of the urban streets during the past periods represented that by proximity to city center and First Pahlavi street has increased the desirability of visual quality criteria in urban streets such as variety, legibility, personalization and visual appropriateness, The results also showed that men and women have significant differences in perception of environment and choice of street furniture. Therefore, in future research, design appropriate to gender differences in urban spaces is required.