Reading about the contextual factors affecting women's actions in small urban spaces case study: Khajoo Bridge of Isfahan

Document Type : Original Research Paper

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Islamic Azad University of Isfahan (Khorasgan), Isfahan, Iran

2 Department of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Art Universit, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
the dominant idea of the urban postmodern era is accepting everyday life as inseparable part of the urban public space. In this idea, public life represents people's lived experience of their actions against the way dominant structures operate in a space-time arrangement. The research aims to conduct an in-depth analysis of the urban public space to identify the factors affecting women's acts. The research paradigm is critical and within the framework of the theory of social production of space, borrowing from Lefebvre's opinions. According this, their daily lives are examined through grounded theory and the connection of time and space in a public space on a micro-urban scale in Isfahan; Paul Khajo analyzes. The questions include the identification of contextual factors affecting the occurrence of women's actions in Khajo Bridge. The innovation of the research is to describe and explain the hidden aspects, characteristics, and acts of women in the public space by using the contextual method and focusing on the needs and demands of women in everyday life. The grounded theory is used to extract the categories affecting their lived experience and the systematic analysis of collected field information (in-depth interviews and observations of the objective aspect of the occurrence of actions); the results are presented in a theoretical-contextual model based on contextual conditions, causes of the event, intervening factors, and consequences as follows: Background (ideological view), Causes (cultural view, sexual view, global view, institutional view), Context (biogeographic perspective, physical-spatial perspective), Harsh conditions (social relations perspective, critical perspective, and tourism perspective) and two-way effects for the structure and women in two positive forms (quality improvement, sociability (for women), research and controllability (for the structure), negative (social aversion) and quality building for women and de-formalization and de-legitimization of and taking over and owning the space of the official structure.

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Articles in Press, Corrected Proof
Available Online from 22 July 2026

  • Receive Date 14 March 2024
  • Revise Date 25 July 2024
  • Accept Date 26 August 2024