A Handbook of Theories on Designing Alignment between People and the Office Environment, 2021

high variability of conceptualisations of place attachment across various disciplines of the social sciences (e.g., Lewicka, 2011b). Indicative of this variability is the range of labels that has been used to refer to the emotional bond between person and place, such as place attachment, root edness, sense of place, and urban attachment (Hernández, Hidalgo, & Ruiz, 2014). Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, various epistemological and theoretical influences have been drawn on, leading to disagreement on how to define, conceptualise, and assess place attachment (e.g.

Architecture_MPS

As cities in the developing nations are becoming urbanised at an accelerated pace and intensity, urban planners, design practitioners and policymakers conjoin efforts to satisfy the emergent needs. The design and construction of a sustainable built environment offers adaptive amelioration to the risks of climate change, which ostensibly affects the global South more than the North. Therefore, for developing cities to become sustainably urbanised and planned, socio-economic factors in addition to environmentally devised technological innovations should be comprehensively conceived, to become more consciously assimilated in urban planning and design of residential neighbourhoods in the global South. One of these social factors is place attachment, which has been gaining traction in the last three decades due to the role it plays in understanding the implications of human–place bonding on predicting behaviours, which in turn prepares communities to become resilient and sustainable in t...

Cities, 2024

We sought to create a comprehensive model to address the lack of a conceptual framework that captures the dynamic (re)production of place attachment in the context of change and time, and the partial neglect of the role of physical and social places. Our proposed model informed by critical literature review describes how residents, affected by urban displacement (change), negotiate the neighborhood's affordances and shape its socio-spatial network, community ties, and continuity/familiarity dimensions. Singapore's massive displacement programsrelocating the citizens from villages to urban public housing (Village Clearance, 1927-1990) and more recently from aging housing stocks to alternative sites (Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme, SERS, since 1995) have enabled urban redevelopment and renewal over the years. The implementation of the ongoing SERS policy provides a context for this study. Mixed-method research in Tanglin Halt public housing neighborhood which underwent three SERS phases, included a policy review, initial spatial mapping, first-person observations and interviews (N = 38). The findings validate the proposed model and provide a new taxonomy on a community's affordances to trace how attachments change over time. Furthermore, it indicates the significance of a sociospatial heart(s) and residents' agency for communities to dynamically negotiate displacement, which can inform urban regeneration policy.

2014

In this chapter, I consider place, place experience, and place attachment as they might be understood phenomenologically from three different perspectives: first, holistically; second, dialectically; and, third, generatively. I argue that each of these three perspectives points to a spectrum of complementary experiences, situations, actions, and meanings that remain faithful to the lived comprehensiveness of place and place experience. I suggest that these holistic, dialectical, and generative perspectives provide a range of useful ways for thinking about and understanding place attachment.

Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2011

This paper reviews research in place attachment and organizes the material into three sections: research, method, and theory. A review of several hundred empirical and theoretical papers and chapters reveals that despite mobility and globalization processes, place continues to be an object of strong attachments. The main message of the paper is that of the three components of the tripartite model of place attachment (Scannell & Gifford, 2010a), the Person component has attracted disproportionately more attention than the Place and Process components, and that this emphasis on individual differences probably has inhibited the development of a theory of place attachment. Suggestions are offered for theoretical sources that might help to fill the gaps, including theories of social capital, environmental aesthetics, phenomenological laws of order, attachment, and meaning-making processes that stem from movements and time-space routines.

Research on place attachment has been rapidly expanding during the 2000s (Lewicka, 2010). A search in ScienceDirect on October 29, 2010, with "place attachment" in the "title, abstract, or key words" in "journals or books" within psychology, social sciences, arts and humanities, nursing and health professions, environmental science, and decision sciences found 143 articles. Th ese articles were published between 2000 and 2010 and the fi gure counts 72% of all place attachment articles published between 1993 or earlier and 2010. However, as some mismatches were obviously included in the results, a correct fi gure from 2000-2010 is approximately 112 articles. As at least 15 review articles published between 1992 and 2010 are within this fi eld (Lewicka, 2010), the current review is not an 9

2003

The theme of this chapter has its general reference frame in that sector of human experience represented by affect-feelings, moods, emotions, etc.which people experience in v arious ways, forms, degrees, with varying awareness, with reference to the places in which they are born, live and act. Also, in relation to the other persons who live and operate in the same places. We have all experienced some form of affective bond, either positive or negative, pleasant or unpleasant, with some place or other-a place that can be related to our current or past experience (childhood places), sometimes to the future (the place we dream of living in, where we would like to go/return to), and more or less restricted in scale: the house in which we live or have lived, a certain room in the home, the area around the home, the neighbourhood, the city, the country... Each of us is familiar with peculiar aspects, nuances, of this affective world. It not only permeates our daily life but very often appears also in the representations, idealisations and expressions of life and affect represented by art products-in the first instance literature, but also other genres. Indeed, not only do we acknowledge the existence of an affective bond with places, but also the importance that this can have in qualifying our existence, whether positively or negatively. And not just our individual, private, existence, but also the existence of entire human groups. There is perhaps no feeling of mutual affinity, community, fraternity among persons, whether formal or informal, institutionalised or not-nor feeling of diversity, aversion, hostility − that is not in some way related to matters of place, territory and attachment to places. For better or worse, this has far-reaching implications. The feeling we experience towards certain places and to the communities that the places help to define and that are themselves defined by the places − home (family, relations, friends), workplace (colleagues), church (fellow worshippers), neighbourhood (neighbours), city, country, continent-certainly has a strong positive effect in defining our identity, in Giuliani, M. V. (2003). Theory of attachment and place attachment. In M. Bonnes, T. Lee, and M. Bonaiuto (Eds.), Psychological theories for environmental issues (pp. 137-170). Aldershot: Ashgate. Psychological Theories For Environmental Issues 138 Place Attachment 141 relationships, the relationship exists in its own right and has a key survival function of its own, namely protection (p. 120-121).

How do people form place attachments through interaction with others and with places over time? I propose that there are seven distinct processes through which people form bonds with places. This framework was developed from the analysis of 104 depth interviews conducted in California and Colorado, newspaper and magazine columns and letters, memoirs, and first person essays. This framework proposes that seven distinct processes interact at the individual, group, and cultural level to shape place attachment. Each of the seven processes has a unique nature and develops differently over time and space.

Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2001

One of the limitations in the study of attachment to place has been its restriction to the spatial range of neighbourhood. Apart from some studies analysing attachment to house, there is a gap regarding other spatial environments. In this sense, we do not know to what extent people can be attached to other spatial categories, i.e., to bigger or smaller places, and whether the neighbourhood range is effectively the basic level of attachment, as many studies assume. On the other hand, most studies on attachment to place have viewed places as social environments only. We have found very few references to the physical dimension of place in the definition of the concept and also few regarding its operationalization. In this study, we measured place attachment within three spatial ranges (house, neighbourhood, and city) and two dimensions (physical and social), in order to establish some comparison between them. We did so by interviewing 177 people from different areas of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain). The results indicate that attachment to place develops to different degrees within different spatial ranges and dimensions. Among the results, we can highlight that: 1) attachment to neighbourhood is the weakest; 2) social attachment is greater than physical attachment; and 3) the degree of attachment varies with age and sex.

Geoforum, 2019

This contribution to a spatial theory of sense of place is an invitation to seek a better understanding of the importance of physical and concrete places in dynamic territorial attachments and meanings. The objective is to build a theoretical and methodological framework embracing a spatial approach to relations with place, and of testing it on different territories. From 130 individual interviews conducted in four rural areas, this article provides four main scientific insights: (1) a theoretical input through clarification and classification of seven concepts involved in the interactions between people and places; (2) a framework proposition in order to highlight the important role of place in defining sense of place; (3) an empirical input, with a comparative multiple case analysis; and (4) schematic representations of place attachment (based on place dependence and place identity) and place meaning (based on liked, disliked and notorious entities). Such results may be of interest to both land-use planners, in order to match facilities to affinities, and to inhabitants themselves, as tools for dialog.