INTERACTION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND ) OPEN SPACES

Abstract

The field study deduced two factors affecting the behavioral patterns in the residential spaces : the socio-economic status, and the physical setting characteristics. The table 5.I indicates that the actual physical setting of each socio-economic class residential area has a range of specific characteristics that the designers and planners may consider. For example, the urban pattern of the low socio-economic classareas has either the form of the governmental housing types or the compact informal tissue, but never exists in high rise building types. . The table represents some characteristics of the spaoes' users of different socio-economic classes. The low socio-economic class people can be the closest to be identified as the "baladi" with the term's significance represented in chapter 2. Most of them lack a sufficient internal spaoes and live in high densities. They have more tendetlcy to socialize with a great limitation to their local areas (they have also constraints to movement and communication to outside their neighborhoods). However, within the low socio-economic class, the blue coUar {mostly inhabiting informal housing areas) differ from the white collar (usually inhabiting the governmental housing) in behavioral patterns. The manual workers are more distinguished by a specific language, tend more to violenoe, and may achieve some sorts of vandalism.