Sense of Place” and “Place Attachment

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Hashem Hashemnezhad ¹ , Ali Akbar Heidari ² , Parisa Mohammad Hoseini ³

1 - Associate Professor, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
2 - Ph.D. Candidate in Architectural Department, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 - M.A., Islamic Azad University,Ardebil Branch, Ardebil, Iran

Received: 2012-09-10 Accepted : 2012-11-05 Published : 2013-03-01

Keywords: place, Sence of place, Place attachment,

Abstract :

Today, concepts such as place attachment, sense of place, meaning of place, place identity, has devotedmany studies In literature of architecture and urban design particularly in the field of environmental psychology. It is obviousthat in all these concepts, various aspects of interaction between human and place and the impact that places have on peoplehas been presented. This paper defines the concepts of sense of place and place attachment and explains the factors that affectthem. Sense of place is a comprehensive concept which in it men feels places, percept them and attached meaning to them.Understanding the fundamental aspects of sense of place, can be effective in assess the level of public attachment to place sandtendency of people to places. Place attachment refer to emotional and functional bonds between place and people whichInterpreted in different scale from a district to a country in Environmental psychology. In this regard different studies pointto varied of spatial and human factors. Review the literature, this paper achieves a comprehensive definition of these conceptsand then it try to compare them to find their relationship. What will come eventually is that place attachment is one of thesense of place subsets. Thus in encounter of people and place if assume people sense of place a general feeling to that place,place attachment is a positive emotion which people have about the place.