Feminist Non-functional Empowerment in Urban Spaces: An Empirical Study on New-Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

Surrounding urban spaces are quite known by how they would affect every user's daily life. For thriving this effect, studies should be generated in bounded issues; one of these are the feminist empowerment in urban spaces, and how would these spaces functionally suit them? In this research, the researcher aims to clarify feminist rights in the built environment and how urban spaces would affect on their daily attitude. The research conducted observations on feminists’ contact with urban spaces—density and duration—and the questionnaire survey to records on why they chose or avoid, how much they spent time, and others—based on feminist database—in these spaces located in a new high-class community, New-Cairo, Egypt. The research then works on analysis data to assess the causal relationship between the feminist social aspect, the built environment, urban behavior, and the feminist functional empowerment in urban spaces. This study would provide design guidelines to municipalities' feminist needs in urban spaces to re-conduct functional urban spaces through fulfilling these needs.