Where Gender Comes to the Fore: Mapping Gender Mix in Urban Public Spaces

Peimani, N. and Kamalipour, H.

APA
Peimani, N., & Kamalipour, H. (2016). Where Gender Comes to the Fore: Mapping Gender Mix in Urban Public Spaces. Spaces & Flows: An International Journal of Urban & Extra Urban Studies, 8(1).

Keywords
Gender Mix , Tehran , Urban Mapping , Urban Public Space

Abstract
The study engages with the ways in which gender mix plays out in public spaces as a key issue in exploring social diversity and vitality of the urban public life. The paper introduces a mapping method to unravel how gender differences are spatially manifested in urban public spaces. Thus, urban mapping has been considered as a method for producing a kind of spatial knowledge that has the capacity to shed light on how different socio-spatial patterns play out in public open spaces. The proposed mapping method documents where and the extent to which female and male users appropriate urban public spaces. The database for developing and testing the proposed method emerges from two site areas in the city of Tehran. In doing so, the study draws upon direct observation, fieldwork notes, visual recording, and urban mapping as research methods. In this way, the paper raises questions about the importance of gender mix in public space and the ways in which mapping has the capacity to inform urban research.

Main finding
The paper raises questions about the importance of gender mix in public space and the ways in which mapping has the capacity to inform urban research.

Description of method used in the article

Verdict
Of practical use

Organising categories

Activity
Gathering/Socializing
Method
3D / Digital / Datasets Field Observations
Discipline
Anthropology
Physical types
Other
Geographic locations