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Abstract
Understanding how and why people control external spaces in their residential settings is vital for the environmental planning and design and planning of effective housing layouts. The research presented examines the patterns of outdoor territorial control in a single-family complex in Jordan. This country is rapidly urbanizing with the development of new housing types. While previous studies have examined the home, little work has examined the external environment related to the home. Increasingly, this domain is being used to reinforce occupants' sense of social identity. This case study involves the examination of a new housing complex. The data were collected using face-to-face interviews through a structured questionnaire with a sample size of 93 occupants. The results of the study demonstrate that an occupant's use of physical territorial control is high. The most used physical territorial pattern is fencing and the least is signs. Findings also suggest that physical control is associated with the presence of children in the family, employment, age and family life cycle. The strongest predictor seems to be age, as it is associated with the physical territorial control patterns of fencing, decorating, modifications, signage and locking gates, which simply confirms the relation between identity and territorial control.
