Research On Safety Improvement Of Walking Space Around Large Commercial Buildings Based On Women’s Perspective

The “New Urban Agenda” promulgated by “Habitat III” in 2016 has become a new programmatic guidelines for global urban planning,construction and management.The agenda explains global urban ideals through a gender perspective,as the two words “gender equality” and “female” appear in it for 23 times.Undoubtedly,an equality and inclusive city is based on the respects for gender differences.The safety of women in urban public spaces has always been a global problem.For women,there are always various kinds of security problems in urban walking spaces.In view of this background,this paper puts forward its research issue.The quality of the walking environment is measured in many aspects,including safety,comfort,convenience,socialization,and pleasure.Focusing on safety of walking environment,this research analyzed women’s feelings of security based on the investigation.From the perspective of female pedestrians,the research is supported by the relevant theories of environmental psychology and environmental behavior.The purpose of this study is as follows,1.Exploring the safety assessment model of walking spaces based on female perspective;2.Comparing the influencing factors of pedestrian safety around urban large commercial buildings from the perspective of women,3.Studying the optimization strategies of walking spaces around urban large-scale commercial buildings based on female’s feelings of security.Through the relevant literature review at home and abroad,combing the theoretical and practical progress related to the safety of urban walking spaces,extracting the influencing factors of it,and formulating a space safety evaluation index system with female’s perspective,which involes four dimensions including space quality,business vitality,traffic interference and social environment.Then make some adjustments to the index system according to female citizens’ suggestions and special climatic conditions of Harbin.Based on data of the investigation,this research compared the evaluation of female’s feelings of security from four different dimensions,including walking space types(including sidewalks,outdoor commercial squares,and outdoor commercial pedestrian streets),personal attributes,and also the changes of day and night and seasons.In order to explore the different influences of the safety factors of walking spaces on women’s perspective,the research introduced the Three-Element Asymmetric Theory to analyze and compare the safety factors of walking spaces.Then divide the safety factors into three categories,including Excitatory Factors,Performance Factors and Basic Factors,according to their different influencing modes.The same method is applied to the priority order of improvement of safety factors in three different types of walking spaces around the large-scale commercial buildings.The research put forward a series of spatial optimization strategy so that we can improve the female pedestrians’ feelings of security.Finally,based on the above analysis results in view of female’s perspective,security improvement proposals for the walking spaces around the large commercial buildings in Ha rbin are put forward.