Open and recreational spaces as the parameters of the dwelling quality

Open and recreational spaces represent the essential content of a residential zone, whose arrangement, equipping and maintaining affects the dwelling quality. The adequate arrangement and maintenance of the open and recreational spaces, environmental comfort and accessibility contribute to the transformation of the aesthetic identity of the functional-spatial unity of the housing ambient they belong to. This paper explores the content and the functional structure of the open and recreational spaces, categories of the said spaces in a housing zone and the basic principles of arrangement on whose basis an analysis and evaluation of the open and recreational space in the city of Niš territory was done. The conducted analysis has an aim of issuing recommendations and guidelines for the improvement and revitalization of the free and recreational spaces, which determine the dwelling quality