Abstract：City square, which is a significant kind of public resources, is an important place for citizens to take outdoor leisure activities. Traditionally, only service radius and design concept is considerably concerned in the design process. But research on the characteristics, such as gender, age and family structure etc. of the population isn't enough and this inadequacy makes the square operate inefficiently. The analysis of the issue on city square design in this paper is based on feminism thought, which concerns about the gender difference.
Generally speaking, feminism dated back to the middle of the 18th century and gained its second wave in 1970s. From feminism perspective, a lot of new thoughts come into being in many fields, such as sociology, politics, economics and culture. In foreign countries, from feminism perspective, there are a lot of research productions relating to urban planning and environment design. But systematical research of the city square design from feminism perspective is rare. The idea of feminism traveled into our country in 1950s, and not popular until 1980s. And researches on urban planning and environment design from feminism perspective are only some introductions to feminism geography and feminism planning thought. There are a few papers about relative fields. Research of city square design based on feminism isn't seen. And the importance of the square to the female lies in two aspects: one is to play as an important female leisure space, and the other is to make it favorite for the female to subsidize place making. The design-factor of the square is the main point of this research.
According to related literatures, all the design factors can be summarized as seven categories and thirty-one subcategories. The investigation results of the squares of Qinlauai and Baixia District show that there is little concern difference between the two genders in most of the factors. This result implies that as a natural and socialized person, the two genders have many aspects in common. The evident differences distribute dispersively. The details are that the male emphasizes more on private space, human history, and landscape maintenance while the female concerns more about the lay-out, the special facilities, and the aesthetic effect of the green landscape. And these differences are mainly reflections of the domestic labor division, cognitive difference, life experience of the daily life, aesthetic difference and marginalized role of the female in the process of the history.
刘合林, 沈清. 两性对城市广场设计要素的关注差异研究——基于女性主义视角[J]. 人文地理, 2008, 23(4): 12-16,50.
LIU He-lin, SHEN Qing. STUDY ON THE CONCERN DIFFERENCE IN THE CITY SQUARE DESIGN FACTORS BETWEEN TWO GENDERS——From Feminism Perspective. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2008, 23(4): 12-16,50.
