CONTRIBUTION TO THE ENHANCEMENT OF OUTDOOR URBAN SPACES IN INTERMEDIATE HOUSING CASE STUDY SETIF, ALGERIA

Back to Page Authors: Souheir Sabrine Benreguig, Nassira Benhassine

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Keywords: intermediate habitat, quality of life, social practice, spatial configuration, appropriation

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Abstract: Outdoor urban spaces are of concern to many stakeholders. Over time, outdoor spaces are a support for collective and social life, an equalizer allows the possibility of exchange for psycho-sociological relationships and community life necessary to meet the needs of the inhabitant. In housing cities, they are halfway between the private and public spheres by their location, it constitutes an important pole in the transition and the hierarchy of spaces. Therefore, it is one of the most important criteria for the inhabitants to assess the quality of their habitat. This study is based on observation and a social survey by questionnaire with the inhabitants of the SNTR housing estate. The main goal is to understand the role of the outdoor space with regard to the inhabitants and to evaluate its characteristics and the factors influencing the perception of the inhabitants in a qualitative approach aiming to improve the quality of life as well as control and control. from space. The study is based on the compatibility between social practices and the latter's spatial configuration. The main criteria used to control this consensual mechanism was the degree of satisfaction of the users of the space. The survey results have shown that the non-materialization of outdoor spaces has led, in the light of experience nowadays, to problems of spontaneous appropriation and prioritization of outdoor spaces of transitions by different age groups. This non-materialization approved an amalgamation between the different components of the urban outdoor space, which made them difficult in their management and control of their uses. The study encourages urban planners, planners and landscapers to improve the spatial configuration of outdoor spaces with a view to sustainable urban development.

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