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Assessing the Role of Safety Perception in the Relationship Between Street Environments and Women’s Stay Behavior, Using Multi-Source Big Data

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This study establishes an impact pathway hypothesis connecting street environments, safety perception, and women’s stay behaviors based on spatial cognition theory and the lens model theory. It examines the driving factors behind female environmental perception and behavioral patterns in urban streetscapes by integrating street view imagery and facility point data. Random forest models and questionnaire surveys were employed to evaluate the sense of security, and structural equation modeling was used to quantify environmental features, safety perception, and behavioral indicators. The results demonstrate that four street environment dimensions, functionality formats, interface morphology, spatial quality, and street facilities, exert varying degrees of positive or negative influences on women’s safety perception and behaviors. Perceived safety serves as a significant mediator in the environment–behavior pathway, with functionalities, spatial quality, and interface morphology exhibiting sequentially decreasing effect magnitudes in this mediated relationship, while street facilities indirectly affect staying behaviors exclusively through the safety perception mechanism.

Source: Buildings

DOI: 10.3390/buildings15183310

Authors: Yuxuan Li, Liang Wu, Yuan Xue, Haomin Jiang

Institution: Dalian University of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Urban Design and Spatial Analysis

Subfield: Building and Construction

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,137