This paper is a brief of masters degree thesis which examines the housing patterns in Tripoli and their sustainability to determine how they penetrate urban open spaces. Within this framework, selected housing areas and public space relations will be analysed in terms of sustainability that has become commonly discussed recently. As far as Tripoli is the city that exists for thousands of years and it has different impressions and culture mixture and ethnics through its historical background and its geographical importance in the world, these researches deeply encourage and interest the author to emphasis the relationship between this urban open space and housing settlement patterns in scope of sustainable urbanization in Tripoli. This relationship and design patterns shape our life and response harmoniously and accordingly in returns. This thesis obviously analyses the main Tripoli square with its close street surroundings. It is aimed to develop the housing patterns with their urban open spaces in Tripoli to encourage interaction for humans and create diverse and welcoming environment for all locals and foreigners. Furthermore, it is concentrated on the main urban open space in Tripoli center ‘Martyrs square’ which is the core of the city and set as launching point of the thesis and case study with its housing settlement relation nearby. It is thus inevitably focused on investigating the district to maximize the quality of life standards initiating a masterpiece of sustainable architecture design development

Keywords : Sustainable Housing Design, Urban Open Spaces, Urbanization Development, Human Well-being Environment, Tripoli housing development