An Analysis of Urban Tourist Spaces in New Cities Focusing on Women’s Sense of Security (Case Study: New City of Baharestan)

Authors

• Majid Goodarzi1
• Maryam Molaee2
• , Masoud Abdelahi

Abstract

Due to the recent upheavals, the presence of most women in public domains of cities and concurrent breaking the limitations of families, the necessity of revising organization of urban spaces for creating a platform for active participation, healthy and non-damaging presence of women in physical and social spaces is observed. Therefore, the present study was conducted to analyze urban tourist spaces focusing women’s sense of security in Baharestan City. The research method was descriptive-analytical, and the population sample included all women residing in Baharestan in 2014 that they were 19700 people. The sample size was determined as 384 participants using Cochrane’s formula. The sampling method was purposive random sampling. In the present study, the made 11-question questionnaire was used that its validity was calculated as 0.70 using Kendall coefficient and reliability was calculated as 0.85 using Cronbach’s alpha. For inferential analysis of the obtained data, one sample t-test and ANOVA were sued. The results of one sample t-test indicated that women of Baharestan City do not enjoy in urban tourist spaces, and from the perspectives of the women living in Baharestan, there is relative security in urban tourist spaces. The f-observed at the level p<0.05 indicated a significant different between the mean scores of women’s sense of security in urban tourist spaces of Baharestan based on the years of residence in the city, educational degree and marital status.

Keywords

• Tourist Spaces
• Security Sense
• Women
• Baharestan City

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