ABSTRACT
The Female-Headed Households (FHH) is still not much observed in the urban planning context. In this issue, the female head and her relatives form a spatial structure to regulate the use of the dwelling environment. This study explores the understanding of spatial structure through gender perspective and its relationship with spatial practice and negotiation in the FHH. Through the method of emic construction and quasi-participant, the observation and analysis have shown that in the process of maintaining the spatial structure of daily activities, the FHH family cannot be separated from negotiation with the mother and neighbours. Through the understanding of spatial narrative and primary spatial syntax, the analysis explains that to maintain the production of spatial structure change, the negotiation is influenced by the mothers’ specific perspectives in the FHH environment. This study finds that in the production of spatial structure change, its reproduction is the most important need to produce the integral spatial structure in the FHH housing, so that FHHs are able to preserve their whole activities to be continued daily in limited space, without the presence of the men.
