Urban and Rural Habitat: A theoretical-conceptual propose to rethink the human habitat from de sense of identity

Abstract

The human habitat is the result of the interaction of man and nature, which is based on the intervention that the needs, dimensions and thought patterns of man imposed on this relationship: human groups –natural environment. The formation or construction of the human habitat is then given by the consolidation of the created “place”. This “place”, is considered as such when it is built from the physical and the symbolic perspectives. This implies the completeness of the human and his axiological relations with absolutely everything that surrounds him: other people, objects, contexts and situations. This completeness has shaped the human habitat in its natural and urban environments, and has laid the foundations for building a memory and an identity: a “sense of place.” The understanding of the human habitat and the recognition and reflection about its problems and the intention to act in it, should be based on a multidimensional and trans-disciplinary assessment.