The relation between human behavior and environment at sociability of human-made areas

Human beings are not isolated from their surroundings and are interacted with at every moment. In addition to being physically interacted with the environment, they are emotionally and psychologically connected too. Human activities on the environment are a complex system of different categories and have been addressed by different theoretical approaches. These approaches are common in focusing on the concept of the quality of life in man-made environment and it reveals the necessity of addressing the affordance of man-made environment. The possibility of establishing good social interactions at different levels of family and society, man-made environment on one hand and the possibility of understanding the nature and natural elements on the other hand, indicates two aspects of quality of man-made environment. This research is intended to analyze and assess the role of perception of nature and natural elements in man-made environment on the sociability of physical environments of daily life and the desire to interact with the environment. Therefore, based on environmental psychology literature and behavioral sciences, the basic framework is subtilized on context of humanenvironment studies and components affecting human interaction and the natural environment in the physical environment are investigated. In the following the sociability of physical environment in interaction with the natural environment is analyzed and evaluated. In this paper, as a result of investigating the above mentioned factors, the perception of nature in manmade environment was found as one of the effective factors of sociability in physical areas.