Impact of Architectural Changes in Housing Estates on Urban and Environmental Quality in Constantine
Year: 2022
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Most housing estates in Algeria often represent an identical image with the observation of multiple problems: a huge deficit of spatial, social, urban, and environmental qualities, which contributes to the absence of the feeling of individual and collective well-being of the inhabitants.In most of the housing estates in Constantine, self-construction generates different forms of social representation, detour, and mutation in the individual habitat and its public space.This form of housing perpetually continues to impose the appearance and the current and dominant image under the appearance of unfinished red brick constructions, which contributes detrimentally to the quality of the landscape and the environment of the city.These phenomena contribute to the reproduction of the urban landscape in general and public spaces, as well as changing the uses and practices of these spaces.This article deals with the problem of mutations in a case located in the new city of Ali Mendjeli in Constantine, Algeria.These detours have disfigured its character of habitat, displaying an image of multipurpose and informal trade, which thus generates environmental pollution regarding multiple nuisances of acoustic and olfactory nature.The objective of this work is to establish an intervention respectful of the environment and to analyze the impact of these mutations on the quality of life of the inhabitants, the reflection must be oriented on several aspects such as the expression of the identity of the habitat through the representations and the social behaviors, the serenity and the tranquility of the district, the environmental quality, and the preservation of public spaces.This research is based on a survey completed by a questionnaire and field surveys, subsequently, the processing of these data has led to several results whose most important are the inadequacy of the architectural design with the needs of the inhabitants, the non-existence of monitoring of these sites of self-construction, the deficiency of control on the part of the authorities concerned and the vulnerability of urban legislation.
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4312513996