Relationship between women's presence in urban space and urban desirability criteria using structural equations

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between presence of women in urban space with urban space factors. In this research, which was done by scrolling method, 365 women in Daran urban areas (center of Frieden city) were chosen using a multi-stage cluster sampling approach proportional to sample size and were studied using a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was formally established and the high Cronbach alpha coefficient for variables (The rate of women's presence in urban space, specific limitations of women, physical fitness of urban space, social desirability of urban space, functional desirability of urban space and semantic desirability of urban space, respectively 0.62, 0.91, 0.87, 0.85, 0.79 and 0.79 were obtained) that Indicates the desirability of the reliability of the research tool. For analysis of the model, the path analysis method was used in Amos software. The results showed the path to the components of the lack of social safety, urban space safety, division of labor and access to the presence of women was not significant. But There was a positive and significant relationship between the presence of women with components of the physical framework, comfort, convenience and safety, the variable of physical desirability, the component of justice and equality, social utility variable, component of compulsory activity, activity utility variable, the components of sanctity, the sense of pleasure and the sense of belonging, and desirability variable.