Tight spaces and its livability : an overview of qualitative attributes in urban tight spatial habitations to express its livability as apposed to crowded behavior

Abstract

"Man being is living organism requires certain needs to be satisfied to survive in the environment. Architecture is essential product of human life. Architecture enhances the character of the place. In relation to human body has added value. Meaningful orchestration of space reflects the architectural space." Norberg·Zhults (1971:13) Livability is a quality of an environment, which is experienced by people. Everybody knows what livable environment is, but the problem is as to how it can be achieved in tight spatial habitations. There have been many previous attempts to outline a set of criteria for a livable or a good city. In this study more attention is given to understand as how this livability can be achieved particularly in urban tight living entities. Most of the tight spaces that create comfortable and more livable environment have evolved through long period of time, and most of them are bound primarily to situational and universal components. In fact the universal component of human behaviour plays a very vital role in identifying the strategies for more livable environments. Therefore tight spaces change emerged as one of the prime characteristics of a livable environment. These changes may range from the change of the entire environment, to the sense of change. Indeed a city is more than building and spaces. The essence of the city is life. Cities come in to being in response to human needs. In the same way cities are jugged according to the degree that those needs are satisfied. In this process of creating livable city is an important achievement of man. It suggests his capacity to use his creativity to organize spaces around for himself, for a better way of life. All of cities nowadays, are developing towards the sky. In order to development of ~city resulted being placed on vertical city as opposed to horizontal tight spatial development this was happened due to the scarcity of land. But those spaces are developed as low scale urban tight spaces. This has become a .general spatial structure of the future scenarios of urban tight spaces as opposed to crowded behaviors and to derive livability of urban tight spaces. In parallel a strong view is being grown within a concrete jungle. Is it the tight urban development that makes as miserable within the city or is the inappropriate composition of it that shuttled whole of the city life. We as well the designers of environments for the well being of man must attempt to explore means and ways of answering the above in order to ensure our environment to be livable