Research on Urban Feminine Public Space

Abstract

There have made great progress in urban space research which based on the individual bodily difference in the context of postmodernism. Feminine space also has been focused in the Architecture. In China, women often are regarded as one unit of sub-groups, whose living condition and living space had undergone great changes. Based on the bodily difference, from the view of functional requirements, behavior needs, physical needs and psychological requirements of women, the paper discusses the major existing problems in four aspects, which concluding function layout, transport supply, service facilities and space identify. Combined architecture and geography, sociology, urban planning, the paper uses the method of cognitive map and preference method to explore feminine cognitive pattern and behavior model, thus construct the ideal paradigm of urban feminine public space.