Abstract
The understanding of the relationship between outdoor activities and outdoor urban spaces is a complex issue, comprising a mutual study between urban space configuration and human behaviors aspect. Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre 1987 confirmed that when the outdoor areas are of high quality, the outdoor activity take place with the same frequency, and they tend to take a longer time. From this point, this paper presents an investigation method of the quality of outdoor urban space basing on the investigation of user pattern. El-Houria plaza in Biskra city, Algeria was chosen as case study. Behavioral mapping and questionnaire surveys were applied, for data collection and analysis on March, where the mean daily maximum temperature in the city is 24°C. The findings from this study show that there is a segregation in the continuity of outdoor activities during the day, due to the poor quality of plaza, as well as this confirmed that the continuity of outdoor activities in space depends on the quality of outdoor urban space. This investigation method can be used it and applied to analysis user pattern and examine the quality of outdoor urban space to lead and prompt to a successful design.
Highlights
Public space the stage upon which the drama of communal life unfolds (Carr et al, 1992)
Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson (1984) in the book of “ the social logic of space” introduced the concept of space syntax a theory and a method to look into the correlation between people behavior, and the space layout, the basis goal is to evaluate the movement patterns of people in real life (Hillier et al 1984), Choi et al (2006)in their study of urban space in Seoul, Korea used space syntax theory to analysis, regarding the pedestrian movement to defined the lighting system of city,the major aimed of this study is to improve the safety of street
The findings from this study proved that outdoor activities have a direct relationship with the quality of outdoor space, this means that human behavior in any urban space has to be tested and carefully studied
Summary
Public space the stage upon which the drama of communal life unfolds (Carr et al, 1992) It concerns the physical and the psychological and the sociological dimensions, this means that public spaces are capable to effect on the Sakhri Hadjira, Bada.Yassine, Rohinton.Emmanuel, Zahariade Ana Maria way people behave, experience and interact in public spaces (Aghostin, 2007) “We shape our space, thereafter, our space shapes us.” (Winston Churchill, 1943). Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson (1984) in the book of “ the social logic of space” introduced the concept of space syntax a theory and a method to look into the correlation between people behavior, and the space layout, the basis goal is to evaluate the movement patterns of people in real life (Hillier et al 1984), Choi et al (2006)in their study of urban space in Seoul, Korea used space syntax theory to analysis, regarding the pedestrian movement to defined the lighting system of city ,the major aimed of this study is to improve the safety of street. Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson (1984) in the book of “ the social logic of space” introduced the concept of space syntax a theory and a method to look into the correlation between people behavior, and the space layout, the basis goal is to evaluate the movement patterns of people in real life (Hillier et al 1984), Choi et al (2006)in their study of urban space in Seoul, Korea used space syntax theory to analysis, regarding the pedestrian movement to defined the lighting system of city ,the major aimed of this study is to improve the safety of street. Bada (2012), investigated the correlation between people’s movement and spatial use, in four plazas in the city center of Biskra, Algeria, using space syntax method, the results of this study showed that the spatial use is strongly related to visual considerations relevant to the type of activity
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