Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Place attachment och neighborhood attachment'

Denna studie har för avsikt att undersöka begreppet platsidentitet i relation till vad personer boende i Fellingsbro förknippar med sina liv. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vad personer i Fellingsbro förknippar med sina liv ur ett nutida och historiskt perspektiv samt om, och i så fall hur, personernas platsidentiteter har förändrats mellan 1970-talet till idag 2021.Begreppet platsidentitet har många olika definitioner. Platsidentitet kan förstås som dels baserad på platsens identitet, dels baserad på personernas identitet kopplat till platsen. Den här studien utgår från personers identitet kopplat till platsen men definitionen har även fått en egen prägel för att passa just den här studien. Det är vad personer förknippar och har förknippat med sitt liv, och därmed deras identitet i Fellingsbro, som är fokus i den här studien.Studiens empiriska undersökning är baserad på en flermetodsforskning där kvantitativa enkäter och kvalitativa intervjuer har kompletterat varandra. Enkätundersökningen låg till grund för avgränsningar i studien och intervjuerna gav fördjupad information om de olika teman som uppstod genom enkäten.Vidare är studiens slutsatser att de respondenter som har deltagit i denna studie har annorlunda platsidentiteter idag i jämförelse med vad de hade under 1970-talet. Respondenternas förändrade identiteter kan förstås genom ortens fysiska förändring, rörelsemönster och känsla för platsen. Dessa förändringar mynnar ut i att en majoritet av respondenterna idag ser andra orter som mer viktiga i sina liv än vad de var på 1970-talet. Samtidigt som respondenterna idag associerar sammanhållningen i Fellingsbro med de närmsta grannarna snarare än med Fellingsbro i stort som de i högre grad gjorde under 1970-talet.

Official planning documents and strategies often look at cities from above neglecting people’s experiences and practices. Meanwhile cities as meaningful places are constructed though citizens’ practices, memories and ties with their surroundings. The purpose of this phenomenological study is to discover people’s bonds with their urban allotment gardens – dachas – in the Russian city of Kaliningrad and to explore the significance of these bonds for city development. The phenomenon of the dacha has a long history in Russia. Similar to urban allotment gardens in other countries, dachas are an essential part of the city landscape in many post-socialist countries but differ by their large scale. Recent decades have brought diversity into the urban dacha areas of Russia and express a shift away from their primary function of recreational horticulture towards a greater variety in usage, including housing. Due to multiple legal frameworks these areas have become special enclaves with haphazard development, inadequate levels of infrastructure and low quality of self-build houses. Urban dachas can be examined as an example of both post-socialist suburbanization and informal settlement. In this thesis the concept of place attachment, derived from the works of human geographers and environmental psychologists, is used as both the theoretical and methodological lens to look at people-place relations in urban dacha areas. The empirical evidence for this study was gathered through interviews and observations in Kaliningrad where urban dachas comprise 11% of the city’s territory. To capture the different aspects of place attachment in these areas the data was categorised according to common themes.The findings of this study show the complexity of the bonds between people and their urban allotment gardens. Despite all the hardships, these places provide their residents an opportunity for independence and self-realization. The respondents demonstrated an energy and aspiration to achieve increased well-being for themselves and their families, however the lack of resources and institutions hinders the development of place attachment in urban dacha areas. The identified features of people’s bonds with their dachas should not only be preconditions for urban planning but also an integral part of the planning and development process. This study also tests the application of the concept of place attachment for urban studies.

The city of Poseidonia-Paestum on the Italian peninsula has a long and manifold history throughout Antiquity. The city was founded by Greek settlers in the seventh century BC, put under Lucanian rule around 400 BC, and was finally colonized by the Romans in the year of 273 BC. This study aims to connect the tangible traces of history to the intangible feelings for a place and explore how these elements give rise to the psychological process of place attachment. The concept holds and interdisciplinary potential and thus is possible to apply to the ancient material from Poseidonia-Paestum. The Greek agora, the Roman forum and the extramural Sanctuary of Santa Venera is approached and analysed from this perspective. A close reading of previous research on place attachment in combination with the archaeological record from Poseidonia-Paestum has formed the basis for analysing the material. This study has shown that it is possible to contextualize the theoretical framework of place attachment in an ancient material by pointing out the semiotic potency of the material remains from Poseidonia-Paestum. Through this perspective new questions have been raised and interpreted. Ultimately, a deeper understanding of the attitudes and ideas that formed the basis of human actions and decisions in the ancient city of Poseidonia-Paestum has been reached.

Sara, Amatul Sabooh (2020) Exploring place attachment and neighbourhood effects: A case study of Skärholmen and Vårberg, Sweden Urban and Regional Planning, advanced level, master thesis for master exam in Urban and Regional Planning, 30 ECTS credits Supervisors: Danielle Drozdsewski and Eva Andersson Language: English Key words: neighbourhood effect, place attachment, social cohesion, collective efficacy, social ties. Abstract If we take residential neighbourhoods as a space for making social ties and interactions, we can learn a lot about the generated neighbourhood effects on its residents and their subsequent attachments towards neighbourhoods as a place. It is believed that neighbourhoods have an impact on individuals and groups either significant or insignificant. The neighbourhood effect is understood by deeply observing the common trends, norms and similar behaviours, furthermore, by measuring the influence it has on life of its residents. This study intends to explore the relationships between neighbourhood effects and place attachment and is inspired from a bigger project ‘The Neighbourhood Revisited’ (Research programme in Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2019-2024) that explores the spatial polarization and social cohesion in contemporary Sweden. The aim of my study is to look at social ties, how it changes over time and what neighbourhood effects we can observe on its residents’ social lives. Neighbourhood effect and place attachment studied together, through the narratives of local residents give many new meanings to both concepts. My focus here is on social aspects of it.

Tidigare forskning har visat att individers omgivning (klimat, natur) har relativt stor inverkan för hur pass stor vemodet blir vid byte till en ny omgivning. Omgivningen anses även påverka och forma individens personlighetsdrag. Studiens syfte var att undersöka vilka individtyper som är mest villiga till att byta ort för ett lämpligt arbete, i relation till deras huvudsakliga uppväxtort. Undersökningen bestod av 250 deltagare. Resultatet redovisade signifikanta samband mellan både uppväxtort och attityd till att arbeta i stora och mindre städer. Inget signifikant samband erhölls mellan de olika personlighetsdragen i relation till flyttbenägenhet. Det personlighetsdrag som starkast påverkar individens flyttbenägenhet var öppenhet. Män rapporterades vara mer flyttbenägna än kvinnor, och generellt tenderar de att vara uppvuxna i glesbygd.

Vi har utfört en kvalitativ studie vars syfte är att belysa vad känslan av hem och hem som fysisk plats har för betydelse för personer som är eller har varit bostadslösa. Vi har utfört sju intervjuer med individer som passar den beskrivningen. Vår utgångspunkt har varit Nattcaféet i Halmstad som Svenska kyrkan driver för att hjälpa och ge stöd åt personer som på olika sätt är i behov av det. Det kan vara bostadslösa personer som t.ex. behöver kläder, men det kan även vara personer som är ensamma som kommer dit för att de uppskattar sällskapet. Frågeställningen vi syftade att besvara: Vilken emotionell och praktisk betydelse har känslan av hem och hemmet som fysisk plats för bostadslösa och f.d. bostadslösa personer som deltar i Nattcaféets aktiviteter i Halmstad? Det empiriska material som vi samlat in analyserade vi utifrån tre socialpsykologiska teorier: Platsanknytning (Gustafson, 2002) Stigmatisering och identitet (Goffman, 1963) och Sociala band (Scheff, 1990). Detta gjordes med hermeneutiken som vetenskapsteoretisk ansats. Med utgångspunkt i dessa socialpsykologiska teorier har vi försökt att lyfta fram betydelsen av hem för personer som under någon period har varit bostadslösa.  Vår studie visar att livet som bostadslös är både fysiskt och psykiskt betungande, och att detta kan lämna tydliga spår i individens personlighet.
We have conducted a qualitative study where the purpose is to highlight what significance the feeling of home and home as a bodily location has to people who are or have been homeless. We have conducted seven interviews with individuals who fit this description. Our starting point was the Nattcaféet in Halmstad that is run by the Swedish church to help and support people who are in need of support in different ways. This may concern homeless people, in need clothes, but it can also be people who are lonely and appreciate the company.Question we sought to answer: What emotional and practical significance does the feeling of home and the home as a bodily place have for the homeless and former homeless people that take part in Nattcaféets activities in Halmstad? The empirical data that we have collected, were analyzed from three social psychological theories: Stigma and identity (Goffman, 1963), Social bonds (Scheff, 1990) and Place Attachment (Gustafson, 2002). This was done with the hermeneutics as science theoretical approach. Based on these social psychological theories, we have tried to highlight the importance of home for people who at some point have been homeless. Our study shows that the life of a homeless person is both physically and psychologically burdensome, and that this may leave clear traces in the individual's personality.

Vi lever i en allt mer globaliserad värld som medfört en ökad frihet för individer att röra sig mellan länder, regioner, städer, byar eller landsbygder. Det har bidragit till att individer kan tillskriva sig flera identiteter utifrån upplevelsen av olika kulturer och platser. Individens identifiering med en plats kan ha betydelse för hur hen ser på att flytta ifrån platsen till en ny plats. Syftet med studien är att få en förståelse för om och hur individer som inte är födda i Sverige identifierar sig med olika geografiska platser där de bott, hur det anknyter till deras identitet och vilken betydelse det kan ha för att byta boendeort i Sverige. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom åtta djupintervjuer med individer som inte är födda i Sverige men som är bosatta i landet. Resultatet visar att individerna inte identifierar sig med sina nuvarande bostadsorter framförallt eftersom de saknar ett arbete och identifierar sig som immigranter. De har en kulturell bakgrund med sig och majoriteten har fortfarande en stark förankring med sina födelseländer vilket har format deras identitet, samtidigt som de försöker förhålla sig till den nya kulturen. Samtliga intervjupersoner uppger att de är beredda att flytta ifrån sina nuvarande bostadsorter om de får ett arbete någon annanstans eftersom de inte ser en framtid där på grund av avsaknaden av arbete. Utifrån deras beskrivningar kan det tolkas som att de har svagare band och en svagare förankring till sina nuvarande bostadsorter, och att det inte finns några motstånd eller hinder för hur de förhåller sig till att flytta. Det är något som kan gynna kompetensförsörjningen i de norra delarna av Sverige där det finns ett stort behov av arbetskraft till följd av de stora företagsetableringar som sker.
We are living in an increasingly globalized world that has led to an increased freedom for individuals to move between countries, regions, cities, villages, or rural areas. It has contributed to individuals being able to attribute multiple identities based on the experience of different cultures and places. The individual’s identification with a place can have an impact on how he or she feels about moving from that place to a new place. The aim of the study is to contribute to a deeper understanding of whether and how individuals who were not born in Sweden identify themselves with different geographical locations where they have lived, how it relates to their identity and what significance it may have to change place of residence in Sweden. The empirical material has been collected through eight in-depth interviews with individuals who live in Sweden but who were not born in Sweden. The result shows that the individuals do not identify themselves with their current places of residence, primarily because they are unemployed and because they feel and identify themselves as immigrants. They have a cultural background and the majority have strong ties with their native countries which has shaped their identity and they try to relate to the new culture. All interviewees state that they are prepared to move from their current places of residence if they get at job elsewhere because they do not see a future where they live today due to the lack of work. Based on their descriptions, it can be interpreted that they have less ties and attachment to their current places of residences, and that there is no resistance or obstructions in how they relate to move to a new place. This is something that the northern parts of Sweden can consider in their working process with attracting labor because of the large company establishments in the area.

The thesis introduces the concept of ‘sense-making of risk’ (riskförståelse) for the purpose of the theoretical and empirical study of the individual’s sense-making of risk. Particular weight is attached to an examination of the term’s various components, its compass, and the relationship between sense-making of risk and behaviour. The premise is that risk is created and defined by the common conceptions that exist within the framework of a specific social context; the effect is to focus attention on the significance of social and cultural contexts. To provide a full picture of sense-making of risk, and risk behaviour, and to study these phenomena using a variety of methodological perspectives, the data was gathered from both polls and focus-group interviews. It is in the first article, based on a focus-group interview study, that the concept of sense-making of risk is introduced: the empirical results demonstrate that it can be used to chart how young people with similar risk perceptions differ in their understanding of a variety of risks. A theoretical model is proposed that establishes that there are two dimensions to the individual’s sense-making of risk. The second article considers young people’s risk behaviour in traffic milieus. The principal conclusion drawn in this study is that the individual’s sense-making of risk is insufficient to explain behaviour in relation to risk: the spatial context must also be taken into account. The third article focuses on the relationship between place attachment and sense-making of risk, and demonstrates that various aspects of place attachment have implications for the individual’s sense-making of risk. The fourth and final article offers a cluster analysis. The article’s most important result is its refinement of the theoretical concepts.  Structure of meaning is singled out as the basis for the individual’s sense-making of risk. In its empirical application the concept was shown to be useful in studying the behavioural differences between various social groups, since grouping by structure of meaning furnishes an explanation for variations in risk and risk-reducing behaviour. The introductory and concluding chapters assemble the studies’ findings and offer a full account of the concept of sense-making of risk. The thesis’ most important conceptual contribution is to the question of how the individual arrives at a personal sense-making of risk. However, it will fall to future studies to establish the concept’s general applicability by considering its theoretical ramifications and empirical implementation. In this way, sense-making of risk can take its place in a specifically sociological conceptual apparatus that focuses on how the individual relates to risk.
Föreliggande avhandling introducerar begreppet riskförståelse (sense-making of risk) och dess syfte är att teoretiskt och empiriskt studera detta begrepp. Särskild vikt har lagts vid att undersöka riskförståelsens olika beståndsdelar, dess rumsliga dimensioner samt relationen mellan riskförståelse och beteenden. Med utgångspunkt i att risker definieras och skapas med utgångspunkt i gemensamma föreställningar inom ramen för ett specifikt socialt sammanhang fokuseras betydelsen av sociala och kulturella kontexter. Med detta som grund har begreppsutvecklingen i avhandlingen bland annat inspirerats av Karl Weicks och Alfred Schütz teorier om individens meningsskapande. I de olika delstudier som ingår i avhandlingen studeras olika aspekter av individens riskförståelse och risk-/riskreducerande beteenden. Genom att utgå ifrån Weicks teorier om meningsskapande illustrerar riskförståelsebegreppet individens personliga förståelse för olika risker. De normer och värderingar som omger individen i det sociala och rumsligt definierade sammanhang som hon befinner sig i är avgörande för vilken förståelse hon kan skapa för en risk. Genom att använda bland annat Schütz teorier om sociala relationer betydelsen och funktionen av individens meningsstruktur synliggjorts som bas för individens riskförståelse. Meningsstrukturen består av flera olika beståndsdelar och i avhandlingen lyfts fyra av dessa fram: egna erfarenheter, värderingar, platsanknytning och social skiktning. Genom att individen relaterar den risk hon möter till den egna meningsstrukturen skapas förståelse för den specifika risken. Meningsstrukturens funktion är att bistå individen med förenklingar av verkligheten för att göra det möjligt att skapa mening kring olika risker. En viktig aspekt vad gäller meningsstrukturen är att den i hög grad är socialt konstruerad genom socialiseringsprocesser i det specifika rumsliga sammanhang som individen befinner sig i. Detta innebär att individens förståelse av risk relateras till olika sociala och rumsliga sammanhang; individens riskförståelse är således platsbunden. Avhandlingen bygger på fyra delstudier vilka presenteras i artikelform. Datamaterial samlats in genom både enkätundersökningar och fokusgruppsintervjustudier för att undersöka detta fenomen utifrån olika metodologiska perspektiv. I den första artikeln, baserad på en fokusgruppsintervjustudie, introducerades begreppet riskförståelse. De empiriska resultaten visade att begreppet kan användas för att synliggöra hur ungdomar med liknande riskperceptioner skiljer sig åt i sin förståelse av olika risker. En teoretisk modell utformades som beskriver individens riskförståelse med utgångspunkt i två dimensioner. Den första dimensionen relaterade till i vilken grad individens riskförståelse är platsbunden och den andra till om individens riskförståelse främst kan beskrivas som kollektivt eller individuellt orienterad. Empiriskt åskådliggjorde resultaten att ungdomarna i studien uppfattade samma risker som allvarliga men att deras riskförståelse skilde sig åt och att dessa skillnader kunde härledas till boendemiljö. I den andra artikeln studerades ungdomars riskbeteenden i trafiken. I studien gjordes logistiska regressionsanalyser på ett datamaterial hämtat från Trafiksäkerhetsundersökningen 2001. En viktig slutsats från denna studie var att det är viktigt att inte bara ta hänsyn till individens riskförståelse, utan också till rumsliga sammanhang vad gäller att förklara individens beteenden i relation till risk. Den tredje artikeln, som baserades på en fokusgruppsintervjustudie, var en tillämpning av begreppet riskförståelse med avseende på risker i trafiken. Undersökningen fokuserade på relationen mellan platsanknytning och riskförståelse. Studien visade att olika aspekter av platsanknytning har betydelse för individens riskförståelse. Social tillhörighet hade särskilt stor betydelse vad gäller riskförståelse hos de ungdomar som deltog i studien men också de andra dimensioner av platsanknytning som studerades (yttre förhållanden, ömsesidigt beroende och värdegemenskap) hade betydelse för riskförståelse hos respondenterna i studien. I den fjärde delstudien genomfördes klusteranalys på ett datamaterial från undersökningen Samhälle och värderingar 2008. Det viktigaste resultatet från denna studie var den teoretiska begreppsutveckling som presenterades. Denna innebar att meningsstrukturen lyftes fram som bas för individens riskförståelse. Vidare gjordes en operationalisering av individens meningsstruktur, vilken användes för att gruppera individer. Den empiriska tillämpningen visade sig vara användbar vad gäller att studera skillnader i beteenden mellan olika grupper i samhället då gruppering utifrån meningsstruktur bidrog till att förklara skillnader i risk-/riskreducerande beteenden. I kappan förs de olika delstudierna samman och begreppsutvecklingen i fråga om riskförståelse beskrivs. Begreppet är av särskild vikt vad gäller att beskriva hur sociala och rumsliga sammanhang ingår i individens riskförståelse. Den begreppsutveckling som gjorts har också visat att individen baserar sin riskförståelse på en meningsstruktur vilken också kan användas för att undersöka risk- och riskreducerande beteenden. Avhandlingens viktigaste bidrag är den teoretiska begreppsutvecklingen ifråga om hur individen skapar sin personliga riskförståelse. Ytterligare teoretisk begreppsutveckling och empiriska tillämpningar bör dock göras i kommande studier för att säkerställa begreppets generella användbarhet. Genom detta kan riskförståelse bli en viktig del i en specifikt sociologisk begreppsapparat med fokus på hur individen förhåller sig till risk.

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Place Attachment is a positive affective bond between people and environments, and its main characteristic is the desire to maintain closeness to the place of attachment. Neighborhoods, in turn, are spaces close to the dwelling, which varies according to environmental, social and cultural characteristics. Facing the contemporary scenario of diminishment of neighborhood relations and its importance to the understanding of cities social-environmental context, the present work aimed to investigate the attachment to neighborhoods at the city of Natal-RN. This study had two stages. The first stage consisted on investigating, through an experts panel, the main characteristics of attached neighborhoods, aspects that contributes to the development of these neighborhoods, the ones that difficult, as well as look for indications of neighborhoods at the city of Natal that may be identified by these elements. In the following stage I interviewed 11 residents of two indicated neighborhoods at the district of Alecrim, to better comprehend the main characteristics of this attachment and the elements of the context that enable its development. The content of the interviews, categorized and evaluated by judges, indicated that, due to the 10 participant experts, the main characteristics of attached neighborhoods encompass elements of socialization, cooperation, physical space usage, intimacy and identity. According to them, these are characteristics enabled by temporal and rootedness aspects, by spatial contact, familiarity between neighbors, and cultural inheritance. The interviews with residents showed that attachment to the studied neighborhoods is specially grounded on support and cooperation networks between neighbors, on satisfaction with the proximity of services, and on the bond to symbolic aspects and local traditions. In addition to be enabled by spatial organization, by low displacement of residents, and by the district s history, relations at these neighborhoods are fostered by an intention to establish this kind of ties, carried by cultural values
O apego aos lugares ? um la?o afetivo positivo entre pessoas e ambientes cuja principal caracter?stica ? a necessidade de perman?ncia em contato com o lugar de apego. As vizinhan?as, por sua vez, s?o espa?os pr?ximos ? resid?ncia, que variam em fun??o de caracter?sticas ambientais, sociais e culturais. Diante do quadro contempor?neo de enfraquecimento das rela??es de vizinhan?a e de sua import?ncia para o entendimento do contexto s?cio-ambiental das cidades, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo a investiga??o do apego a vizinhan?as na cidade do Natal-RN. Este estudo dividiu-se em duas etapas. A primeira etapa consistiu em investigar, por meio de um painel de especialistas, quais as principais caracter?sticas de vizinhan?as apegadas, quais fatores contribuem para o desenvolvimento de tais vizinhan?as, quais dificultam, bem como buscar indica??es de vizinhan?as na cidade do Natal que possam ser identificadas por esses elementos. Na etapa seguinte entrevistei 11 moradores de duas vizinhan?as indicadas no bairro do Alecrim para compreender melhor quais as principais caracter?sticas desse apego e quais elementos de contexto favorecem seu desenvolvimento. O conte?do das entrevistas, categorizado e avaliado por ju?zes, indicou que, para os 10 especialistas participantes, as principais caracter?sticas de vizinhan?as apegadas contemplam elementos de socializa??o, coopera??o, utiliza??o do espa?o f?sico, intimidade e identidade. Para eles, s?o caracter?sticas favorecidas por fatores temporais, de enraizamento, pelo contato espacial, pela familiaridade entre vizinhos, al?m da heran?a cultural. As entrevistas com moradores mostraram que o apego ?s vizinhan?as estudadas est? especialmente calcado na rede de suporte e coopera??o entre moradores, na satisfa??o com a proximidade de servi?os, e no v?nculo a aspectos simb?licos e tradi??es locais. Al?m de facilitadas pela organiza??o espacial, pelo pouco deslocamento dos moradores e pela hist?ria do pr?prio bairro, as rela??es nessas vizinhan?as s?o fomentadas por uma inten??o em estabelecer esse tipo de la?o, advinda de valores culturais

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur användandet av mobilapplikationen ARK56, har påverkat användarens friluftsliv, platsanknytning och landskapsidentitet i området Blekinge Arkipelag. Projektet ARK56 utvecklades i biosfärområdesarbetet, som ett nätverk av leder för friluftsliv och aktiviteter kopplat till näringslivet i området. Mobilapplikationen ARK56 har en viktig del i detta projekt, och innehåller ett interaktivt kartverktyg baserat på Naturkartan, och filterfunktioner som ger användaren möjlighet att skräddarsy den information som presenteras i mobilapplikationen. Tidigare studier på mobiltelefonanvändning i friluftslivet visar på att tillgängligheten till områden har ökat men att tekniken även kan påverka hur vi uppfattar omvärlden. Även studier på hur anknytning och identitet kan inverka på boendes ställningstagande i frågor rörande plats och landskap i ett biosfärområde visar på vikten av informationsspridning. Då det saknas forskning på hur en mobilapplikation som ARK56 påverkar friluftsliv, platsanknytning och landskapsidentitet, skapades en web-baserad enkätundersökning som skickades ut i mobilapplikationens nyhetsflöde. Denna undersökning riktade sig till användare inom kommunerna i Blekinge Arkipelag där enkätundersökningen innehöll frågor om friluftsliv, platsanknytning och landskapsidentitet kopplat till användandet av mobilapplikationen. Resultatet visar att över åttio procent av användarna har besökt en plats som de tidigare inte varit på, och mer än hälften av de svarande anser att mobilapplikationen ARK56 har bidragit till fler friluftsbesök. Resultatet visar även på en komplex och individuell platsanknytning, och en landskapsidentitet hos användarna som innehåller karaktärer vilka är känsliga för framtida förändringar.
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate how the use of the mobile application ARK56, has affected the user's outdoor recreation, place attachment, and landscape identity in the Blekinge Archipelago area. The ARK56 project was developed in conjunction with the biosphere reserve,  as a network of trails for outdoor recreation and activities linked to the business community in the area. The mobile application ARK56 has an important part in this project and contains an interactive mapping tool based on the Nature Map, and filter functions give the user the opportunity to customize the information presented in the mobile application. Previous studies on mobile phone use in outdoor recreation show that accessibility to areas has increased, but that technology can also affect how we perceive the outside world. Studies on how attachment and identity can affect residents' stance on issues concerning place and landscape in a biosphere reserve also show the importance of disseminating information. As there is a lack of research on how a mobile application such as ARK56 affects outdoor recreation, place attachment, and landscape identity, a web-based survey was created which was sent out in the mobile application's news feed. This survey was aimed at users within the municipalities in Blekinge Archipelago, where the survey included questions about outdoor recreation, place attachment, and landscape identity linked to the use of the mobile application. The results show that over eighty percent of the users have visited a place they have not been to before, and more than half of the respondents believe that the mobile application ARK56 has contributed to more outdoor visits. The results also show a complex and highly individualized place attachment. Further, results also reveal user landscape identity inclusive of place characteristics that are sensitive to future changes.

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The human being establishes affective ties each others and also with the place where lives. To explain this relation and verify the existence of affection by the neighborhood, was necessary a bibliographic survey, using several authors from different areas, mainly from geography and psychology areas with a small survey in the sociology area. This investigative material was the base for the reflexion from the collected data in the field research performed with Monticelli village residents in the Goiânia city in Goiás state. According to the geographer Tuan (1980) the person affective relation with a place is denominated Topofily and can happen as a result from a familiarity with the local. According to Giuliani (2004), when a person stays for a long time in the same place can develop an attachment by it and defines as an affective link between the person and the place, the desire to be near it. This place for the survey refers to the neighborhood where the persons live for a long time, establish social relations and identify with it. They can become fond of the quarter by the emotional link related with the relative ties, life history in the place or with the local identity and also by the functional connection , related with the satisfaction of basic necessities that the neighborhood offers, as was evidenced at the end of this study.
O ser humano estabelece vínculos afetivos com outras pessoas e também com o lugar de morar. Para explicar esta relação e verificar a existência de apego pelo bairro, se fez necessário levantamento bibliográfico, utilizando-se um conjunto de autores de diversas áreas, destacadamente das áreas de geografia e psicologia, com pequena investigação na área da sociologia. Este material de cunho investigativo foi base para as reflexões dos dados obtidos em pesquisa de campo, realizada com moradores da Vila Monticelli na cidade de Goiânia-Go. Segundo o geógrafo Tuan (1980) a relação afetiva da pessoa com um lugar é denominada Topofilia e pode ocorrer por conseqüência da familiaridade com o local. De acordo com Giuliani (2004), quando a pessoa permanece por muito tempo no mesmo lugar pode desenvolver um apego por ele e define como sendo a ligação afetiva entre o indivíduo e o lugar, a vontade de estar próximo à ele. Este lugar, para a pesquisa, refere-se ao bairro onde as pessoas passam grande parte de sua vida, estabelecem relações sociais e se identificam com ele. Podem-se apegar ao bairro pela ligação emocional, relacionada com laços parentais, história de vida no local ou com a identidade com o lugar e, também pela ligação funcional, relacionada com a satisfação de necessidades básicas que o bairro proporciona como ficou evidenciado no final deste estudo.

The aim of this study is to study how the themes of loss, hope and place attachment is presented in relation to the concept of ecoglobalist affects in the contemporary nature writing of Swedish author Kerstin Ekman and American author Terry Tempest Williams. I have performed a comparative close reading of three works per author and discussed them in relation to the definitions of nature writing and ecoglobalist affects by Lawrence Buell and the definition of place attachment as a psychological process by Leila Scannell and Robert Gifford. I have found that all of the texts are clear cases of environmentally oriented literature, that the depictions of loss, hope and place attachment are very similar and that while Ekman focuses on the lack of general public knowledge and mostly refrains from dissolving boundaries between the self and the environment, Williams focuses more on the latter. I also found that while examples of ecoglobalist affects could be read in works by both authors in different ways, they were not present in all of the texts.
Syftet med denna studie är att studera hur förlust, hopp och platsbundenhet presenteras som teman i relation till begreppet ecoglobalist affects i Kerstin Ekmans och Terry Tempest Williams naturessäer. Jag har genomfört en komparativ närläsning av tre verk per författare och diskuterat dem i relation till Lawrence Buells definition av nature writing och ecoglobalist affects, samt Leila Scannells och Robert Giffords definition av platsbundenhet som psykologisk process. Studien fann att samtliga av texterna är klara exempel på miljöorienterad litteratur, att skildringarna av förlust, hopp och platsbundenhet har många likheter samt att Ekmans essäer fokuserar på allmän kunskapsbrist och mestadels avstår från att upplösa gränser mellan jaget och den icke-mänskliga naturen, medan Williams fokuserar mer på det sistnämnda. Jag fann även att ecoglobalist affects kunde läsas i verk av båda författarna, men inte i samtliga av de undersökta texterna.

Development for sustainable poverty alleviation requires engagement with the values and cultural frames that enable or constrain communities to steward ecosystems and maintain their capacity to support human well-being. Rooted in a social-ecological systems (SES) perspective, this thesis explores the concept of sense of place to understand how emotional and cultural connections to place mediate human responses to change and influence interventions for development. Sense of place is both the attachments to place, as well as the descriptive meanings to which one is attached. Paper I presents an approach and agenda for studying sense of place in SES that emphasizes place attachment and meaning underlying stewardship actions and responses to change. This is empirically explored through a case study on the Wild Coast, South Africa - an area with multiple contested meanings. In this former Bantustan (an area set aside for black South Africans), Apartheid created interdependence between small-holder agriculture and labour migration, where rural homesteads relied on remittances from migrant household members. Today, the contribution of agriculture to livelihoods has declined and many households rely on income from social grants. Interacting social and ecological factors in this region have resulted in social-ecological trap conditions and circular migration continues to be the pattern. Community conservation and ecotourism is one strategy for local socio-economic development. Papers II and III explore community tensions around a proposed nature reserve declaration. In Paper II, a focus on the meanings of locally-defined ecotopes (e.g. forest and abandoned fields) illuminates the interpretations of underlying social-ecological processes. Paper III examines the use of place meanings in narratives of change to show tensions in the discourse of win-win conservation. The stalling of this particular intervention indicates the importance of engaging with multiple meanings of place and the cultural importance of nature. Papers IV and V focus on declining agriculture and continued labour migration. From a theoretical model of people’s abilities, desires and opportunities, Paper IV develops a typology of responses that may contribute to maintaining or resolving social-ecological traps. For this case study, the model identifies the mismatch between i) cultural expectations that frame the desire to farm, and ii) the decline in opportunities for off-farm income to support agriculture. Paper V demonstrates that these expectations are expressed in the idea of emakhaya (the rural landscape of home) as well as reinforced through cultural rituals. The paper identifies a place-based social contract between the living and the ancestors that helps to maintain circular migration and agricultural practices. This suggests that sense of place contributes to system inertia but may also offer opportunities for stewardship. Sense of place is socially constructed as well as produced through experience in ecosystems, and thus constitutes an emergent property of SES. The thesis demonstrates the use of participatory methods to produce an inclusive understanding of place and SES dynamics. The application of place meanings through these methods facilitates critical engagement with imposed interventions. Finally, the thesis shows that sense of place and culture are key for understanding inertia in SES and the capacity for transformation towards stewardship.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Manuscript. Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 5: Manuscript.

碩士
國立成功大學
建築學系碩博士班
101
With the progress of urbanization, people in the cities are often associated with the image of unconcerned and emotionless. Neighborhood, as a basic unit for people perceiving surrounding urban area, is a good scale for us to discuss the issue about residential perception. Since scientists started to pay more attention on psychological and ecological area these years, psychological feeling of residents became a popular issue. This research started from residents’ perception, with the realization of relationship between neighborhood outdoor space perception and place attachment, we can bring up some advises of neighborhood planning. This research takes Tainan as sampling area; five types of neighborhood were picked (“General mixed-use environment”, “High-rise apartment neighborhood”, “Low-rise apartment area”, “Historic district”, “Suburban rural neighborhood”) for investigating neighborhood outdoor space perception and place attachment. With the help of data, we can compare different neighborhood in scientific way. This will help us bring advises in order to form a neighborhood with high place attachment. The research reveals that neighborhood outdoor space perception is divided into three factors, including “Green area”, “Building quality” and “Street environment”. In the other hand, place attachment is divided into two factors, including “place dependence” and “place identity.” Empirical study shows residents is more sensitive on quantity and size when discuss with green area. For residents, big size green area left by high-rise building and planed with hall block is more preference. Building quality is highly related with commercial activities and advertisement of facade. Street environment has a big influence with traffic disturbance between humans and cars. The cleanness of street is also important.

碩士
逢甲大學
景觀與遊憩研究所
97
In order to the urban planning and resident well-being, park” the addition as well as the demand in accordance to live. As the Taichung City has a long history, there also selected as the "best place to live" (vision magazine, 1996), and "happy city" (Commonwealth magazine, 2007), Taichung City residents per million people in the use of open spaces and parks for every area of 5.17 hectares (Ministry of the Interior Construction and Planning Agency, 2007), is higher than the same for large cities, Taipei and Kaohsiung. In order to improve the metropolis inhabitant to live the quality, the Taichung municipal government also in 2007 proposed “the Taizhong landscape summary plan”, provides the community the populace daily leisure entertainment the place. Studied in the past, the recreation involvement and place attachment as well as mainly made of different field domains could be confirmed, This study will be residents of the neighborhood, Taichung City Recreational Park, the extent of involvement and place attachment, to understand whether in fact the park is properly set and the city residents and produced the relevance of socio-economic background. In addition to previously used method of investigation, it is more to the analysis of spatial autocorrelation methods to identify residents in Taichung City neighborhood Park for the, place attachment, and the change of feeling for the landscape, in spatial association. Finally, conclusions shows (1) Taichung City residents’recreational involvement of neighborhood parks, has a clustering phenomenon in space and has a specific focus areas; (2) Taichung City residents’ places attachment of the neighborhood parks, has a clustering phenomenon in space and with a specific focus areas; (3) Taichung residents of the recreation involvement and place attachment significantly spatial correlation; (4) Taichung City residents Recreational involvement and place attachment in Neighborhood Park would be significantly different from the result of changes in the landscape non-cluster areas; (5) Taichung City residents recreation involvement and place attachment in neighborhood parks of the cluster area its socio-economic background characteristics are associated with nature.

碩士
南台科技大學
休閒事業管理系
95
The neighborhood park is a basic unit in the city park system; it is to offer neighborhood resident's leisure, recreation and gathering in the public place that it is set up the purpose, so the relation between neighborhood park and city residents is very close and direct. Place attachment refers to a person to the link on the functional reliance and emotional expression of place, the neighborhood park is as a resident's outdoor place easiest to contact, which can offer the satisfaction on the function application and emotion to users in the park, undoubtedly setting up, planning and managing a neighborhood park should be paid attention to one. The main purpose of the research is to understand the differences of different lifestyle of neighborhood park users to the place attachment. The results are expected to offer a reference to the managers and construction units relates to neighborhood park. Convenient sampling method was used in this research, the investigation place is located in He-Ti Park , Sanmin District, Kaohsiung. Total 402 effective surveys are collected. Various statistical methods are conducted, including descriptive analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, independent t-test, and One-way ANOVA. The major results are as followings: 1.The majority of park users reside in Ho-Ti community. The residential time is as more than 7 years. The frequent companions are family members. Coming to the park is about 1-3 times per week. Staying time is about1-2 hours. 2.The lifestyles of park users are divided into five factors through factor analysis: Exercise/ extrovert, Stable /people caring, Popular pursuing, Family orientation, and Positive and Optimistic. 3.The place dependence of park users is divided into two factors through factor analysis: Activity orientation and Environmental function; the place identity of park user is also divided into two factors through factor analysis: Emotion identity and Self-expression. 4.The demographic variables and activity characteristics of park users like “Age”, ”Education”, ”Marital Status”, “Family Life Cycle”, “Occupation”, ”Residence”, “House Renting Status”, “Companion”, ” Number of frequencies coming to the park every week”, “Average the time of staying”, “Main purpose” show significant differences to place dependence. 5.The demographic variables and activity characteristics of park users like “Age“, ”Education“, ”Marital Status”, “Family Life Cycle”, “Occupation”, ”Average Family's Monthly Income”, ”Residence”, “Time of Living”, “House Renting Status”, ” Number of frequencies coming to the park every week”, “Average the time of staying”, “Main purpose” show significant differences to place identity. 6.Five lifestyle clusters are obtained through cluster analysis. These five clusters are named as “Fasion orientation”、”Positive ambition”、”Sport loving”、”Family type” and “Stable active”。It is found that these five clusters show significant differences to the four place attachment factors.

碩士
國立成功大學
建築學系
106
Tainan city government proposed Good-Looking Corner landscape improving policy. The policy reorganized the vacant lot in campus and neighborhood to beautify the city and provide the citizen venue of recreation. The policy’s target is on the people living in Tainan, so that we should focus on the citizen’s thought in wish for the friendly and positive interaction between neighborhood and campus. According to the report of Good-Looking Corner(GLC) by Bureau of Urban Development(BUD), Tainan City Government and the schools which had already rebuilt their fence walls, this research took Chongsyue elementary school, Shengli elementary school, Datong elementary school as research area, and execute questionnaire survey on the residents around the campus. Going through regression analysis to explore the relationships among campus Good-Looking Corner environment elements, neighborhood safety, perceived change and place attachment, and used one-way ANOVA to analyze the difference between residents’ remark in different background. The result shows that Good-Looking Corner environment elements, neighborhood safety, perceived change have significant impact on place attachment. Among these elements, vegetation planting, traffic safety and positive development are the most crucial elements. The residents’ remarks are different, as their frequency and time-spent to the campus GLC diverse. Campus GLC is the transition area between neighbor and campus, which increase positive interaction and promote local relationships. As the result, this research recommends that while planning for GLC, the planner can take vegetation plating as the priority and increase the diversity of vegetation; when choosing and designing artificial facilities, the planner should focus on environment harmony and functionality. Also, the maintenance of environment is important in order to fit residents’ need and make them feel sense of comfort and satisfaction when in the region. Consequently, we can not only instill energy to the neighborhood but also achieve campus localizing and also resource sharing to accomplish friendly environment.

abstract: Denver, Colorado is experiencing an unprecedented growth spurt, particularly in the downtown neighborhoods. As such, the city has proposed a multitude of urban revitalization projects in its urban core. This pattern of revitalization has unintended consequences including changes in residents’ meanings assigned to their neighborhoods and subsequently changes in residents’ attachment to those neighborhoods. Given this, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to use a symbolic interactionist perspective to uncover resident meanings of their neighborhoods and discover how redevelopment efforts are affecting those assigned meanings. Participants, recruited through the snowball sampling method in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods in downtown Denver, were interviewed during spring of 2017. Photo-elicitation techniques were used as part of the interviews. Additionally, secondary data available through public documents were analyzed to provide a context for understanding the changes that are taking place in the selected neighborhoods. This data aids in guiding future research, which may ultimately better inform the government agencies and private organizations who are looking to redevelop low-income neighborhoods similar to the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods in the given study.
Dissertation/Thesis
Masters Thesis Community Resources and Development 2018

The master thesis deals with the study of the relation between man and his surroundings. The thesis solves the issue of the place identity and the process of identification with the example of the Prague housing estate Solidarita. It analyses the surroundings from the perspective of a concept of identity which has a multidimensional character. For this reason, the case study approach has been chosen to allow a comprehensive study of space from a variety of perspectives. It deals with the history of the housing estate, its residents, social connections and the perception of space. Because of the presence of green vegetation and public facilities, the Solidarita housing estate is presented as a place which provides a high-quality space and supports the production of social interactions. Surrounding of Solidarita housing estate respects human scale and provides stronger social interactions. The thesis also accents the importance of sociological and anthropological research of a space, that should be a part of urban processes. Key words Architecture, Identity, Housing Estate, Neighborhood, Place, Place Attachment, Place Identity, Solidarita Housing Estate, Space, Urbanism

Esta dissertação de mestrado baseia-se numa abordagem etnográfica do Centro Social do Bairro 6 Maio, localizado no bairro que lhe dáo nome e dirigido pela congregação das Irmãs Missionárias Dominicanas do Rosário. O ponto de partida desta investigação foi as dinâmicas identitárias que ali se produzem e a influência que o Centro Social tem na sua construção. Os seus habitantes, na sua maioria de origem cabo-verdiana, vivem num habitat muito precário, associado a inúmeros problemas económicos e sociais, contudo, muitos manifestam uma ligação positiva ao seu espaço residencial. Esta investigação procurou mostrar as duas faces da moeda, desconstruindo estereótipos e preconceitos, salientando o papel do Centro não só na resposta às necessidades básicas da população, como também na estruturação da sua identidade cultural, através dos projectos e actividades (cíclicas e de rotina) que desenvolve. É particularmente importante o seu trabalho junto dos jovens, na medida em que procura apostar e capacitar jovens líderes, que possam ser exemplos positivos na comunidade. A esse propósito são aqui destacados vários casos desucesso, integração e mobilidade social. O Centro Social surge, assim, como a instituição de referência do bairro, uma entidade que congrega as pessoas, procura promovê-las e capacitá-las; o Centro, o bairro e os seus habitantes são uma tríade quese funde e confunde, abraçando uma identidade assente nesta interacção.
This masters dissertation is based on an ethnographic approach to Centro Social do Bairro 6 Maio (a Social Centre), named after the district where it is located and which is run by the Irmãs Missionárias Dominicanas do Rosário (a Dominican Congregation of Missionary Sisters). This investigation draws from the dynamics of identity that are produced there and the influence that the Social Centre has in itsconstruction. Its inhabitants, mostly of Cape Verdean origin, live in a very precarious habitat, associated with numerous social and economic problems. However, many show a positive place attachment. This research aimed to show both sides, deconstructing stereotypes and prejudices, pointing out the role of the centre not only in the basic needs of the population, but also in the structuring of its cultural identity, through projects and activities (cyclical and routine) it develops. It is particularly important their work with young people, as it seeks to bet on and bring awareness to young leaders, which can be positive examples in the community. Accordingly we draw attention to several cases of success, integration and social mobility. The Social Centre thus appears as the reference institution of the neighborhood, an entity that brings people together, tries to promote them and to train them, the centre, the district and its inhabitants are a triad that blends and mixes, embracing an identity based on that local interaction.