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

理解城市设计中的意图（设计师/规划师）和感知（用户/生产者）之间的因果关系，以概述新的感官标准和设计参数，将性别视角融入设计过程中，使公共空间的使用更具包容性。摘要：该研究项目将研究女性在过去五十年中在西欧城市设计的公共广场对城市氛围的感知。主要目标是提供工具，帮助从业人员、建筑师、规划人员、决策者和参与公共空间建设的其他行为者实施战略，消除现代城市发展中的性别不平等现象。它将着眼于工具和参数所使用的规划师设计这些空间的今天，并在新的技术可供设计师将新的感官标准纳入设计过程。本研究的目的是了解城市设计过程中定量设计参数和定性结果（感官体验）之间的关系，试图勾勒出一个新的框架，促进城市设计的更高质量的方法。与现代主义的大规模规划的快速克里思相比，中世纪的城市根据不断变化的需求一点点地发展。[...]解决方案不是重建前现代城市，而是开发当代工具，可以分析地应用于再次建立生活和空间文明之间的联盟。(Gehl正如Jan Gehl所强调的那样，现代城市发展中的公共空间经常被遗忘，过度合理化，并被大规模思维所设计，而不是以本地/人性化的方式。该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氛围、感知和人类行为的影响。最终，该研究将旨在概述新工具的潜在出现，这些工具更适合当代问题和不平等，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.