Lecture 4

What are the main dimensions of Well-being?

Health

Freedom of choice

Security

Necessary materials for a good life

What are the consequences of the impairment of food production on human well being?

Causes hunger and malnutrition

Icreases infectipus diseases

Sustainability:

Was a term first used by fisheries

What is sustainability?

- Is when a subject is able to be maintained at a certain raye or level.

- Equitable distribution of resources and opportunities.

- Living within the limits of nature.

- Understanding the connection among society , environment and economy.

What is sustainable development?

Is to meet the needs of people without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Maslow hierarchy-

.Our actions are motivated by certain physiological and psychological needs that progress from basic to complex.

Maslow hirearchy 5 stags divided into:-

- deficiency needs ( first 4 levels)

- Growth needs (top level)

First stage is …

Self actualization

Transcendence

refers to the very highest level of human consciousness

Social sustainability:

Is concerned about human  well -being and flourishing of societies for now and future

Also, it is the process for creating sustainable places by understanding what people needs

Human well-being : what is it?

It is the extent to which the individuals have the ability and the opportunity to live the kinds of lives they have reason to value.

The ecosystem:

Dynamic complex of plant, animal and the non-living environment interacting with it

The ecosystem offers us :

- provisioning services ( food and water)

- Regulating services (floods and disease)

- Supporting services ( soil formation and photosynthesis)

- Culture services ( religion and education)

Social production theory:

space is not a thing nor a container , it is a product of nature.

Thus space is produced socially.

There are 3 types of production of spaces:

1- lived space ( space of subjective experience)

2- conceived space ( space imagined by architects)

3- perceived space ( physical organization space)

Contemporary approaches of architectural sociology:

1 - social construction of space ( how space is socially constructed)

2- place making and identity (how the built environment contribute the formation of collective and individual identities)

3- spatial justice and social equity( relationship between architecture and social justice)

4- sustainable and green architecture ( c treating healthy environment)

5- community engagement

6- virtual spaces