“…Before starting the building of a house, a land-plot is selected/ purchased: in the city, on the border of the city or outside the city. It often takes several years to find a land-plot for building a house trying to evaluate the infrastructure (Saidi et al, 2018), distance from the city center or workplace (Acheampong, 2018;Guidon et al, 2019), transport systems, communications (Saidi et al, 2018). Also, citizen choice is influenced by the structure of cities (Acheampong, 2018), the changing composition of their families (Fatmi & Habib, 2018), a land-use change associated with spatial planning (Solecka et al, 2017).…”