Abstract:
At the beginning of the third millennium, accelerating urban phenomenon becomes inevitable. The city is a place of economic production, social and cultural differences. Today, the quality of the spatial form that the city is extending is a very space consuming surface.
In developed countries, developing cities expand in a very fast manner. Growth creates imbalances in all areas and affect the environment and the quality of urban life.
This uncontrolled urbanization of cities is not only due to spontaneous and individual acts of the inhabitants, but also the emanation of a regulatory production made by decision makers across different policies. Sometimes they were an integral part of the socio-spatial imbalance in cities.
With regard to the Algerian cities, the city of Skikda has seen its urban space expand while undergoing transformations and significant fragmentation.
From this observation, we decided to do a study on an important component of urban space, which is individual housing. The objective will be an awareness of the importance of the study of the living space, lifestyle and ownership as generating elements of the living environment of residents and important factors that transform the urban space.
The habitat is considered the driving force of urban dynamics, whose importance is decisive for the assessment of the fate of the urban city. In this context, we conducted a field survey on a peripheral housing estate in the city of Skikda.
Several factors interact on ownership of habitat areas, the conditions of selection and installation in the house, a number of reasons determine attitudes related to the house. In this context, it seems very interesting to understand the processes of belonging and identification of families encountering elements. In other words, it is the lifestyle and ownership models which implies the house. The sense of integration and ownership is essential for the
satisfaction of individuals in their living space. In this context we will discuss ways of inhabiting observed among families surveyed.
Interactions between spatial dimension (architecture) and social dimensions allow to understand the aspects and characteristics of the resulting lifestyle. In the district of inquiry consisting of houses are emerging patterns of ownership and marking of inhabited space, and others have a negative impact on the conduct of social life of the inhabitants. These elements are interesting to inspect to assess the reciprocal impact of architectural elements on the lifestyle of the inhabitants.
In addition to studying the role of the house as a generator of different processes, social networks and territorial space sheds light on an important part of the lifestyle of the inhabitants.
The study of territorial relations and links generated from the house proves to be of enormous importance to complete our study. It analyzes the lifestyle of people at other levels where they practice, a daily, a proper lifestyle.
