Professional Documents
Culture Documents
THEORIES ON HOUSING
Residents Satisfaction
Environment is not only the physical setting but also the social and economic dimensions of
such settings.
Freedom
Security
Identity
Well-being
Communion with Nature (ecological balance)
Survival Health, Food and Nutrition; Water and Sanitation (infant mortality,
malnutrition, access to safe water, access sanitary toilet)
Security Shelter, Peace and Order (households with squatters, households with
makeshift housing)
Theorist says that behaviour of people at a point of time is prompted by their needs
POST-OCCUPANCY EVALUATION
The major concerns of P.O.E. are to evaluate the occupants view on:
Privacy
Security
Use of materials and external space
Building image
Satisfaction level
Personalization of space of their houses and housing areas