THE ROLE OF OPEN-BUILT SPACE MORPHOLOGY IN RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF CLUSTER HOUSING

Abstract

Urbanization is causing the expansion of existing cities, leading to an increase in the built-up density concerning worldwide available land (Figure 1). Housing constitutes a large part of the built density. Planners advocate high-density development as a solution for the optimum use of available land and resources, leading to haphazard large-scale development, especially in the housing sector, to meet the population’s ever-growing needs (Sofi et al., 2017). This haphazard development is causing a decrease in the quality of residential built environments. Residential environment quality (REQ) is a subjective terminology mainly related to inhabitants’ quality of life. Aspects such as nature, open space, infrastructure, built environment, and natural environment all affect human needs and desires. It also affects users’ health, safety, welfare, and satisfaction. Although determining the quality of any residential space is complex and widely includes sociocultural and economic environments, it associates with the built environment that depends primarily on spatial patterns (Gavrilidis et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2020).