Exploring the effect of urban design on women's perceptions and patterns of use in public spaces

了解城市设计中意图(设计者/规划者)和知觉(使用者/生产者)之间的因果关系，概述新的感官标准和设计参数，将性别视角融入到设计过程中，以更全面地利用公共空间。摘要：该研究项目将研究过去50年来西欧城市设计的公共广场中女性对城市氛围的感知。主要目标是提供工具，帮助从业者、建筑师、规划者、政策制定者和参与公共空间建设的其他行为者执行战略，以应对现代城市发展中的性别不平等现象。它将着眼于当今规划者在设计这些空间时使用的工具和参数，以及可供设计师将新的感官标准纳入设计过程的新技术。这项工作的目标是了解城市设计过程中定量设计参数和定性结果(感觉体验)之间的关系，试图勾勒出一个新的框架，促进更高质量的城市设计方法。中世纪城市逐渐根据不断变化的需求发展起来，与现代主义大规模规划的快节奏形成对比。[.]解决方案不是重建前现代城市，而是开发可以分析应用的当代工具，再次在城市生活和空间之间建立联盟。(Gehl，Svarre，2013，pp.3)正如Jan Gehl所强调的，现代城市发展中的公共空间经常被遗忘，被过度合理化，被大规模思维设计，而不是以地方/人的方式设计。这项研究项目将着眼于这一特定类型的城市空间，以更好地了解设计师目前使用的方法及其对公共空间环境、感知和人类行为的影响。最终，这项研究将旨在概述可能出现的新工具，更适合于当代问题和不平等，如城市空间中的性别问题。

Understanding the causal relationships between intention (designer/planner) and perception (user/producer)in urban design to outline new sensorial criteria and design parameters that integrate the gender perspectiveinto the design process for a more inclusive use of public spaces.Abstract: The research project will study the perception of urban ambiances by women in public squaresdesigned in Western European cities in the past fifty years. The main objective will be to provide tools to helppractitioners, architects, planners, policy makers and other actors involved in the construction of public spaceto implement strategies to counter gender inequalities in modern urban developments. It will look at the toolsand parameters used by planners to design these spaces nowadays and at the new technologies available fordesigners to incorporate new sensory criteria into the design process. The objective of the work will be tounderstand the relationship between quantitative design parameters and qualitative outcome (sensoryexperiences) in the urban design process to try outline a new framework promoting a more qualitativeapproach to urban design.Medieval cities grew little by little in accordance with changing needs, in contrast to the rapid tempo ofmodernism's large-scale planning. [...] The solution is not to recreate pre-modern cities, but to developcontemporary tools that can be applied analytically to once again forge an alliance between life and space incities. (Gehl, Svarre, 2013, pp.3)As highlighted by Jan Gehl, public spaces within modern urban development have often been forgotten, overlyrationalised and designed by large-scale thinking, rather than in a local/human way. This research project willlook at this specific type of urban spaces to provide a greater level of understanding of the current methodsused by designers and their impact on ambiances, perceptions and human behaviours in public spaces.Ultimately, the study will aim to outline the potential emergence of new tools, more adapted to contemporaryissues and inequalities such as the question of gender in the urban space.