Space Use: Effect of Outdoor Comfort on Human Behaviours

Abstract

Urban geometry and the characteristic of built environment play an important role in outdoor comfort, they affected microclimate: air temperature, solar radiation, and wind speed, thus human behaviors and exactly people’s use pattern will be directly affected by the microclimate. The understanding of this mutual relationship between outdoor comfort and people’s use is a complex issue comprising both climatic and behavioral aspect. In this sense, the main aim of this paper is to present a literature review about the correlation between outdoor comfort and the use of outdoor space and discussion how people and why they use space according to environmental condition, also this paper is summarized the several studies and take into consideration the different approaches used to investigate the quality of outdoor space. Therefore, increase the quality of urban life.