2.4 Place attachment
Essentially, the term place attachment refers to ‘affective bond’ between people (individuals or group) and a significant environment, which is developing over time (Scannell and Gifford, 2010). However, due to ‘the proliferation of concepts and measurements proposed for characterising emotional bonds between humans and places’ (Manzo and Devine-Wright, 2014, p. 125), place attachment has a diversity of definitions. These definitions, however, remain scattered in the literature, and thus the clear definition of the concept has not yet been acknowledged, nor has a more general definition of place attachment been agreed upon (Lewicka, 2011, Giuliani, 2003, Jorgensen and Stedman, 2006, Scannell and Gifford, 2010). This section …show more content…
However, the first mature definition of place attachment was coined by Low and Altman (1992) who provided the theoretical foundation inspiring subsequent studies in this area. In their edited considerable book on ‘Place Attachment’, they stressed that ‘place attachment is an integrating concept that involves patterns of attachments (affect, cognition, and practice); places that vary in scale, specificity, and tangibility; different actors (individuals, groups, and cultures); social relationships (individuals, groups and cultures); and temporal aspects (linear, cyclical)’ (p. 8). They also articulated the significance of place attachment for environmental design and research, which ‘…lay the foundation for a conceptual framework to guide future research’ (p. 2). Since that, there has been an increasing amount of discourse on the importance of place attachment and related to other constructs such as place identity, and …show more content…
Hernandez et al., 2007, Giuliani, 2003, Bricker and Kerstetter, 2000, Twigger, 1994, Rollero and De Piccoli, 2010), that is to say place identity has an emotional core, such as a home and objects in the home. Just as a child may form an emotional attachment to his or her parents, as human being people also need to form attachment to things or places around them (Lewicka, 2010; Morgan, 2009). It is an evaluative concept between people their places goes throughout their life span; it describes to what extent place means to us. Thus, it can be argued that place identity can be manifested by the emotional bond to a place. On the other hand, others consider the conceptualisation of identity in the way it formed by the places (Moore, 2000) or by self-identity (Proshansky et al., 1983). Nevertheless, in most cases the cognition factor can play an important role in the determinism of the relationship between place identity and attachment.
In intention to integrate the variety of definitions of place attachment, in their recent work, Scannell and Gifford (2010) proposes a framework for place attachment based on the literature review which consists multidimensional structure driven from three main factors: people-process-place (PPP) (figure. 2.2). These three dimensions were elicited from three critical
Essentially, the term place attachment refers to ‘affective bond’ between people (individuals or group) and a significant environment, which is developing over time (Scannell and Gifford, 2010). However, due to ‘the proliferation of concepts and measurements proposed for characterising emotional bonds between humans and places’ (Manzo and Devine-Wright, 2014, p. 125), place attachment has a diversity of definitions. These definitions, however, remain scattered in the literature, and thus the clear definition of the concept has not yet been acknowledged, nor has a more general definition of place attachment been agreed upon (Lewicka, 2011, Giuliani, 2003, Jorgensen and Stedman, 2006, Scannell and Gifford, 2010). This section …show more content…
However, the first mature definition of place attachment was coined by Low and Altman (1992) who provided the theoretical foundation inspiring subsequent studies in this area. In their edited considerable book on ‘Place Attachment’, they stressed that ‘place attachment is an integrating concept that involves patterns of attachments (affect, cognition, and practice); places that vary in scale, specificity, and tangibility; different actors (individuals, groups, and cultures); social relationships (individuals, groups and cultures); and temporal aspects (linear, cyclical)’ (p. 8). They also articulated the significance of place attachment for environmental design and research, which ‘…lay the foundation for a conceptual framework to guide future research’ (p. 2). Since that, there has been an increasing amount of discourse on the importance of place attachment and related to other constructs such as place identity, and …show more content…
Hernandez et al., 2007, Giuliani, 2003, Bricker and Kerstetter, 2000, Twigger, 1994, Rollero and De Piccoli, 2010), that is to say place identity has an emotional core, such as a home and objects in the home. Just as a child may form an emotional attachment to his or her parents, as human being people also need to form attachment to things or places around them (Lewicka, 2010; Morgan, 2009). It is an evaluative concept between people their places goes throughout their life span; it describes to what extent place means to us. Thus, it can be argued that place identity can be manifested by the emotional bond to a place. On the other hand, others consider the conceptualisation of identity in the way it formed by the places (Moore, 2000) or by self-identity (Proshansky et al., 1983). Nevertheless, in most cases the cognition factor can play an important role in the determinism of the relationship between place identity and attachment.
In intention to integrate the variety of definitions of place attachment, in their recent work, Scannell and Gifford (2010) proposes a framework for place attachment based on the literature review which consists multidimensional structure driven from three main factors: people-process-place (PPP) (figure. 2.2). These three dimensions were elicited from three critical