Sense of Place

A significant literature exists on the impacts of tourism on local communities. This paper examines this issue with reference to the impacts of tourism on the residents of Shi Cha Hai hutong in Beijing, but does so with reference to theories of place attachment or place identity. It therefore addresses two gaps in the literature-namely, (a) a comparative lack of empirical evidence on community impacts of tourism in Mainland China and (b) the absence of debate in the tourism literature about place attachment. The study involved both quantitative and qualitative methods, but this paper primarily concentrates upon the results derived from the quantitative study. It was found that, in general, concerns about heritage outweighed perceived advantages from economic development, and the role of heritage in place attachment is duly discussed. Additionally, a structural equation model is suggested whereby attitudes toward tourism are based upon attitudes toward heritage, tourism as a source of potential employment, length of residency and perceived intrusiveness of tourism, all of which impact on a sense of place identity. The findings from these tests raised issues about the role of government and self-efficacy in place identity in a Chinese environment. r

This paper proposes a reconsideration of ‘The New Nature Writing’ as an archipelagic literature, a literature concerned with the diverse and distinctive cultures of Britain and Ireland as much as with its nature. It interrogates the term ‘nature writing’ as applied to this recent literary movement and outlines some differences between this and ‘place writing’. It also traces the influence of archipelagic criticism on this recent movement, exploring some common ground between devolutionary and environmental politics. Finally, it proposes that the archipelagic perspective offers a potentially quite useful means of thinking through some recent debates around the status of place in a modern, global environment.

Individuals can have meaningful experiences with iconic wildlife during holidays, but how important is experiencing ordinary wildlife near home? We investigated how wildlife shapes a bond with favourite local green places in the Netherlands. We conducted 13 walk-along interviews with participants of varying sociodemographics. Results show that experiences with ordinary wildlife can lead to three different types of place bonding. First, familiarity with ordinary wildlife can trigger (childhood) memories, leading to place identity and 'the localised self'. Second, increasing knowledge about wildlife leads to intentional wildlife encounters, accompanied by feelings of accomplishment and 'the internalised place'. Third, ordinary wildlife experiences provide feelings of 'embeddedness in Panta Rhei': they make individuals feel connected with the flows and cycles of nature and life. Thus, ordinary wildlife makes local green places special, as it facilitates connectedness with the world.

As a term, transnational attributes to an understanding of the world which challenges the borders of nation, gender, culture, race; according to Silvia Schultermandl. Identity shouldn't be seen so stiff that it can't fit in within the nation-state borders. Rather especially with immigration and as generations pass it becomes more of a collection of encounters. This unstable identity can be called a "hybrid identity." The mobility, the transnational people go through robs them of the feeling of a sense of belonging. They are always in a "neither-nor" situation. As characters we read, we see them struggling to find their place in the world and explore their "self" in the meantime. I will try to focus on some of the symbols and elements which reflect such or similar situations.

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The aim of this review is to bring the phenomenological sense of place approach together with current results from neuroscience. We searched in neuroscientific literature for ten dimensions which were beforehand identified to be important in a phenomenological sense of place/place identity model: behaviour, body, emotion, attention, perception, memory, orientation, spirituality, meaning/value and culture/sociality. Neuroscience has identified many neurobiological correlates of phenomenological observations concerning sense of place. The human brain comprises specific and specialised structures and processes to perceive, memorise, link, assess and use spatial information. Specific parts (hippocampus, entorhinal, parahippocampal and parietal cortex), subregions (parahippocampal place area, lingual landmark area), and cells (place cells, grid cells, border cells, head direction cells) have been identified, their specific function could be understood and their interaction traced. Neuroscience has provided evidence that place constitutes a distinct dimension in neuronal processing. This reinforces the phenomenological argumentation of human geography and environmental psychology.

Using material from Nella Last's Mass-Observation diary , I suggest that the relationship which diaries are often assumed to have with 'the present' is troublesome. I use examples to show that the assumed synonymy of 'the moment of writing' and 'the moment of experience' is questionable: Last's diary-entries neither always follow the strict chronology of the day's events as they occur, nor concern activities that occur solely on the date her entries are given. These memories are inscribed from Last's perspective at 'the moment of writing', so I look at her presentperspective, set within her broader writing present, as the site from which times are organised in written representation, drawing on extracts regarding her practice of remembering and how these intersect with her 'moment of writing'. This points up Last's agency in using or playing with time, in using the present/'the moment of writing', and with it the 'diary-genre' more broadly, to her own ends. This agency connects with her personal perspective concerning a desire to 'hold time still' and 'take a day at a time'. The discussion concludes by trying to reconceptualise 'the present' that Last's diary invokes, arguing that examining the 'moment of writing' as a complicated and 'thick' present is instructive on two particular counts. Firstly, it recognises the knotty intersections between the past, present and future, and secondly it is highly contextualised and contingent on the diarist's location in her writing present. Understood this way, the present or the 'moment of writing' denotes a nexus of mind, self and society at a particular time. This represents Last's 'subjective lens' through which she navigates her (sense of) place in the world and also locates her within the Mass-Observation project.

Thinking of all the huge and small events happening on streets throughout the history makes streets complex objects worthy of theoretical analysis. Among those, shopping streets have certain defining features specializing them among other streets. This research is addressing central city European shopping streets as spaces of consumption and spaces that are being consumed. The implications of homogenization of retail in European central city shopping streets in terms of sense of place, with two cities as case studies-Copenhagen and Vienna is the focus of this study. This research is an attempt to find out whether with the emergence of recent developments in city streets which result in generic retail structure, the experiences and perceptions are influenced, therefore impeding the sense of place. The study of the literature and comparing it with the current situation of central shopping streets creates a solid background in order to measure and evaluate the presence of sense of place in these streets. The results from surveys and analysis of the results with shamai's sense of place measurement, shows a rather higher sense of place in Mariahilfer Straße rather than strøget while in General the presence of sense of place is rather low in both shopping streets. While the result shows people's interests towards chain stores, it show a low sense of place towards the street itself.

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This easy asks the question what is identity and how does a sense of place / belonging relate to this concept? It is argued in this essay, that it’s via the processes of memory and belonging / place attachments, that we attain an individual / social identity. This process has been analysed within the context of memory and via a belonging / place attachment contextual processes.

The use of computer technology is becoming a necessity to many organizations particularly as a means of representation and visualization. In the context of culture and heritage it is often developed in the form of virtual heritage. This is due to the fact that some of these intangible values are faded or even lost in museums they are placed, or buried in its physical remains and ruins. The concept of portraying the richness of sense of place via the use of virtual reality (VR) technology is seen to be of great potential to give value to the heritage sites. Thus, VR allows a unique representation of the intangible heritage elements while evoking the user's senses, emotions, memories, meanings and interpretations, though these are arguably complex to accomplish. This paper reviews literatures on factors that influence the character of place and sense of place, and the use of VR technology and virtual world design to suggest presence for virtual heritage development.

This article describes three cases of placemaking workshops conducted by the author in three different countries: Ukraine, Tunisia, and Poland, and against different cultural and political backgrounds. In each case, the application of placemaking methods encouraged public participation, showed the potential to facilitate the decision-making process, and helped resolve potential or existing conflicts while building confidence in democratic procedures and institutions. This research highlights the importance of the PPS method which helped to build a team of stakeholders sharing similar views, ones convinced that a positive change is possible and are ready to cooperate. Such attitudes are especially valuable in places where local democracy and participatory urban management is undeveloped.

L'étude de la mise en marque de la Bretagne est intéressante en ce qu'elle est la seconde région en Europe à utiliser le branding jusque là réservé aux (plus grandes) villes. Le branding est une manière de penser le marketing des territoires en plaçant l'image de marque par dessus les autres leviers du marketing que sont les projets urbains, les événements, les actions culturelles, les politiques touristiques, les aides fiscales... La partie visible de l'iceberg est souvent un slogan accompagné d'un logo mais le branding est, en tant que démarche de marketing territorial, un travail analytique, stratégique et opérationnel complexe qui implique les acteurs locaux vers une quête de cohérence de message entre tous. En France, le branding peut être vu comme une nouvelle manière de relancer le marketing territorial depuis le milieu des années 2000, avec l'utilisation de marques ombrelles pour promouvoir un territoire dans sa globalité, associées à des marques produits qui promeuvent des aspects spécifiques (cluster, site géographique d'excellence, manifestation phare…) (Maynadier, 2009).

This article offers the first detailed account of a local working-class 'verse culture', and examines the factors which created it, taking as a case study the town of Blackburn, Lancashire, in the second half of the nineteenth century. It uses content analysis, bibliography, memoir, newspaper archives, a poet's cuttings book and a local historian's manuscript book to argue that reading, writing and performing poetry was an important part of working-class Victorian culture, that culture was produced far from the metropolitan centre (whilst heavily influenced by a poetic canon), and that local newspapers played an important role in producing such local cultures. Blackburn had a typical working-class cultural infrastructure, of mutual improvement, clubs and associations, its pride in local and regional traditions and its thriving newspapers. From this, two exceptional individuals helped to create an extraordinary poetic culture, the town's leading poet William Billington, and the editor of the Blackburn Times, William Abram.

Ecoscenography seeks to design temporary event spaces and
places, with a focus on positive contribution to social and
ecological function and evolution. This paper explores the
potential of ecoscenography to contribute to creative
placemaking, using a practice-led case study (The Living Stage
NYC) that examines how community-engaged performance
spaces can foster dialogue and build social-ecological capital. The
Living Stage is a global initiative which combines stage design,
horticulture and community engagement to create recyclable,
biodegradable, biodiverse and edible performance spaces. Part
theatre, part garden and part growing demonstration, the New
York project took place at Meltzer Park on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan in collaboration with a vibrant cohort of linguistically
and ethnically diverse seniors, fifth graders and neighbouring
residents. Over the course of six weeks, the asphalt lined park was
transformed into a space of lush greenery, along with vibrant art
installations and eclectic performances that celebrated the
community’s identity and potential. Drawing upon literature from
placemaking, expanded scenography and ecoscenography, this
paper explores the opportunities and challenges of creative
placemaking, as well as the changing role of the scenographer in
seeking out possibilities for political, social, cultural and ecological
revitalisation beyond the confines of the theatre building.

book reviews:
* Philip Graus (2017) Place and Placelessness Revisited, Urban Policy and Research, 35:3, 369-371, DOI: 10.1080/08111146.2017.1329802
* Yiwei Huang (2020) Place and placelessness revisited, Journal of Cultural Geography, 37:2, 254-255, DOI: 10.1080/08873631.2020.1761581

This paper aims to define a theoretical framework for conceptualizing on the placemaking potential of urban spatial experiences, mediated by pervasive and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. For this purpose, it discusses the relation of human subjects with things and objects as well as with the spaces and places that they produce, while taking into consideration the latest technological advancements. The ultimate goal is to evaluate the hypothesis that the emergence of places in the aforementioned contexts is not necessarily an anthropocentric process but can largely be the outcome of material agency of non-living things and objects. To this end, the paper presents a public space, site-specific installation titled “Pollen” and discusses the manner in which this mediated environment interacted with the physical environment and with animate and inanimate actors within it.

Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is one of the most beautiful and salient examples of Iranian architecture of the Safavid era, in Isfahan. Despite the scientific studies on the architecture of this mosque, its sacred and semantic concepts have been overlooked behind its hidden values. Therefore, the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque has been studied as a human-made place using the phenomenological approach to architecture, in order to understand the importance of inducing the concept of genius loci; and by examining each of the elements and comparing them to the ideas and components of place. The authors try to answer the question that what environmental qualities of the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque build its genius loci? The research method used in this paper was phenomenology and information were gathered by library studies. The result of the research indicates that this Mosque has significant values, including semantic load, and there is a relationship between its elements and their material and semanti...

This article will consider student engagement through collaborative teaching and learning practices I have developed within a series of bookbinding workshops in which I acquire new skills alongside my students. The bookbinding workshop developed from my desire to seek ways to engage with and alongside students in my practice and research to ground my own making within my pedagogic practice. In this way students are not being ‘instructed’ by a skilled specialist but rather collaborating with a committed enthusiast and researcher learning from their practice and experience. This article will discuss the impact these workshops have had on participating students, their practice and their sense of ‘creative self’ through the analysis of anonymous surveys carried over the span of two years.

Although the observatory is one of the oldest sites dedicated to the study of the natural world, historians of science have until late been rather occupied with another much more modern site for the production of scientific knowledge, the laboratory.

This article aims to identify and extend understanding on the space perception of interior architecture space and form. Increasing the concern about the importance of the feeling about space, form and collaboration between interior architectural design and human senses. Positive influences of interior design of religious spaces effect on people's perception and emotional senses. It will study spatial impressions, with special purpose to demonstrate and illuminate the importance of religious interior space insight. It will emphasize on the environment and simulations of spaces for religious experience. The research objective is the relationship between religious interior design and genius loci, which has been shown to have strong psychological impacts on the human's sense and perception. Moreover, experience and feelings have a significant role in perception of effective interior architectural design. Understanding forms in space for making a balance between the religious activities and space perception, reaching harmony with the surrounding atmosphere, sense of place or Genius Loci and integrating with spirituality are crucial in this essay. Research method of this reading is kind of qualitative, descriptive and data gathering method based on documented study. It is deductive and analyzing the case study according color and lighting perception and sense of place of the La Sagrada Familia, in Spain, which is one of the most exceptional and significant sample of the religious places in the world. Finding and result of this article is features and impact of light, color, visual forms of religious areas which create positive distraction from real life difficulties.

A discussion of the range of ways in which we are connected to the world through place - neurological, sense and memory of place, geographical places, roots, first experiences, home, particularity, placemaking. It also considers the more compiclated relationships with place involved in multi-centred experiences, phantasmagoric places, forms of disconnection, non-places, branding, and electronic connections. It concludes with a discussion of an open sense of place that can connect our origins and experiences in particular places with the intelligence that understands how these are effected by and influence what goes on elsewhere in the world.

It is well attested that wherever people
gather, acrobats, poets, musicians, dancers,
and tricksters also appear and perform.
Although street performers can be found
throughout the entire world, they are curiously
shunned in New York City, while
Plovidiv, Bulgaria in March 2015 decided to
follow other European cities in having auditions
or qualifiers for performers in public
places. This research adds to scholarship on
performance art as a beneficial element in
developing a sense of place in urban environments,
particularly pedestrian malls. A
hundred surveys were collected from Promenade
visitors to highlight these connections
in a case study of street performance on the
Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica,
California. The study argues the presence of
street performers are seen by the majority
as a beneficial element in a pedestrian mall,
resulting in the creation of a sense of place
that enhances the attraction, desirability and
hence success within a pedestrian mall.

The sculptor Richard Long practices a variety of art based largely on taking walks around the countryside. He documents his expeditions by marking his route on a map, taking a representative photograph, or making a word 'poster. I' Assemblages of rocks or other materials are exhibited in galleries. His work shows a subtle understanding of esthetic aspects of the landscape in developing an afistic sense of 'Dlace" from which geographers may learn much about perception.

This paper is concerned with the impact of social constructions of place and community identity on plans for house-building. It discusses the policy of neighbourhood planning in England in which statutory powers were devolved to place-based communities in exchange for their support for housing growth.

We write to you from somewhere, though as we write we are geographically dispersed. We write as collaborators in the truest sense--committed to one another’s personal, political, poetical, and professional projects. But our collaboration is
contingent because of how we are differently implicated and invested, differently coded, by settler colonialism, Indigenous erasure, and antiblackness.

This paper proposes a framework for understanding what novelist Georges Perec has called “the rest” that we live through, the qualities of experience and meaning-making in everyday, in-between spaces, and the ways in which people make sense of the big world through the small. The work explores how common neighborhood places are essential to people’s lives, and its framework of “layered dynamics” suggests ways of understanding an individual epistemology of everyday place. The paper grapples with what Doreen Massey has called a “global sense of the local” and how the meanings we make in our most common places relate to our understanding of the larger world, as well as the reciprocal process by which place helps shape us. Drawing on environmental psychology and differing theoretical conceptions of the individual, as well as innovative methods involving neighborhood tours and photographs with residents of a small neighborhood in Oakland, California, this work explores how, through emergent and often conflicting experiences, the everyday physical world around us derives a variety of individual significances. This paper suggests that these spaces are crucial for study and concern, not only for environmental psychologists and geographers but also for planners. The framework proposed here is a range of dynamic and emergent layers that let us understand the complexity of what neighborhoods are really for: as the sites where individual and place meanings are made through a reciprocal dynamic process.

That talk is never disinterested complicates the relationship between the environment and the claims people make about it. Talk about place, and one's self in it, is particularly complex when the environment poses risk or is otherwise problematized. This study, a secondary analysis of interview data, seeks to extend discursive work on place-identity by examining the ways in which 14 residents of a small English village talk about themselves and their locale. The locale accommodates an active quarry, and many residents had lodged complaints to the quarry about dust, noise and vibrations from blasting. Attention to the interactional context of the interviews illustrates the ways in which (simply) interviewing people about their locale can threaten self- and place-identity. When asked about life in the village, interviewees oriented to two main dilemmas in protecting self- and place-identity: (1) how to justify continued residence in a challenging environment and (2) how to complain about the locale whilst maintaining positive place-identity. Discursive responses to these dilemmas drew upon typical identity processes, such as self- and place distinctiveness and the formulation of out-groups, as well as upon constructions of localized power-sharing and morally obligated tolerance of risk. We suggest that research on problematical places, and of environmental risk, needs to be sensitized to how it may constitute a threat to self- and place-identity, and how this may mediate formulations self and place, as well as of environmental risk.

The vernacular form and physical pattern of settlements in Saudi Arabia evolved under the influence of visible and non-visible forces. Climate, tradition, religion, economic base and political stability are forces behind the overall underlying structure of the vernacular settlements. This article discusses the evolution of planning and urban theory from the perspectives of vernacular design in Saudi Arabia settlements. The evolution of the planning and urban theory of community design in Saudi Arabia is a very controversial theme. The vernacular architectural style can be distinguished easily from the contemporary style. Also, the organic grid pattern can be distinguished from the gridiron pattern used in planning modern neighbourhoods. However, the success or failure of vernacular and contemporary styles and patterns have created recurring arguments among many scholars. On one side, it is quite apparent that the continuity of vernacular organic patterns and styles is an evidence of success in creating secure and safe environment and establishing sense of place. On the other side, the inconsistency of contemporary styles and gridiron patterns is considered as an evidence of failure in creating unsafe and unidentifiable environment. Such an imbalance may result in an influential role of planning and urban theory in the evolution of new form of urbanization in a country like Saudi Arabia. The planning and urban concepts implemented by Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA), the Royal Commission of Jubail and Yanbu (RCJY), and the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs (MOMRA) are tangible evidences for establishing a new approach in planning new neighbourhood. The paper focuses on finding an appropriate urban and design approach for future neighbourhood development. Its main objective is to achieve a balance between the social and physical aspects based on vernacular experiences. Finally, the paper concludes with the notion that a successful planning and urban theory must be based on imperatives based on culture, climate, religion, tradition and technology. #

The concept of ’natural heritage’ has become increasingly significant with the threat of dwindling resources, environmental degradation and climatic change. As humanity’s impact on the condition of life on earth has become more prominent, a discernible shift in the relationship between western society and the environment has taken place. This is reflective of wider historical processes which reveal a constantly changing association between humanity’s definition and perception of what ’nature’ constitutes or what can be defined as ’natural’. From the ornate collections of specimens which formed the basis of a distinct concept of ’nature’ emerging during the Enlightenment, this definition and the wider relationship between humanity and natural history have reflected issues of identity, place and politics in the modern era.

This book examines this process and focuses on the ideas, values and agendas that have defined the representation and reception of the history of the natural world, including geology and palaeontology, within contemporary society and addresses how the heritage of natural history, whether through museums, parks, tourist sites or popular culture is used to shape social, political, cultural and moral identities. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners within heritage studies, public history, ecology, environmental studies and geography.

Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of
poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book
contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded
Haines during his many years of living in Richardson,
Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting,
trapping, the Arctic cold, animals, and death. Haines says
Winter News "was born of the isolation in which I then
lived" (preface OMD) . It is an isolation that Haines
portrays well to his audience and one that has earned him
critical praise.
Many critics have focused on Haines's use of metaphor
and imagery throughout his poetry in Winter News and
subsequent books, yet one area that has not been addressed
in detail is Haines's use of sound devices, a vital poetic
element. Scholar Helen Vendler says that poets are aware of
all the sounds in their poems, as well as the various
rhythms. Vendler notes that "poets 'bind' words together in
a line by having them share sounds, whether consonants or
vowels. This makes the words sound as if they 'belong'
together by natural affinity" (l45).
Haines produces sounds and rhythms using a variety of
devices such as assonance, consonance, and alliteration.
This paper closely examines a variety of his poems in Winter
News and subsequent books, and it illustrates his extensive
sound device usage. Chapter one introduces Haines and
establishes the boundaries of this paper. Chapter two
discusses the importance sound has in poetry; the chapter
details Goold Brown's classification of letters, which is
used as the basis for the sound dissection. Selected poems
from Winter News and later books are discussed in detail.
Chapter three analyzes the death motif, particularly
prevalent in "The Moosehead," "On the Divide," and
"Arlington." Haines's sound device usage, in connection
with these poems, also is examined in chapter three. The
final chapter discusses the conclusions that culminate from
the previous chapters.

Researchers commonly acknowledge the functions of neighborhood parks in terms of social interaction and their potential roles as social integrators. Nevertheless, many cities are facing the problem of underutilized parks which could be due to the park elements that are not legible and appealing. This paper examines the relationship between legibility attributes (clear structure, visual obstacles, and accessibility) with social interaction (park engagement and the intensity of contact) within neighborhood parks. To confirm the extent to which legibility attributes predict social interaction, surveys were conducted with 378 participants in the neighborhoods of Putrajaya, Malaysia. Results revealed that legibility of the neighborhood parks influences duration of use, which in turn increases the potential for social interactions among neighborhood residents. The level of visual obstruction was strongly linked with the quality of the edges and distances between park activities. The findings highlight the importance of legibility in the planning and design of public spaces to encourage residents to stay longer while enhancing interaction in neighborhood parks and ultimately achieving social sustainability.

CushCush Gallery DenPasar 2017 project - DenPasarTalk
Wednesday, 15th March 2017, 9Am-11AM
Sharing session with Marlowe Bandem (Arsip Bali 1928) and Ayip Budiman (RumahSanur)

Ayip Budiman's interesting sharing in finding the sense of place and iconography of Denpasar and encouragement to the DenPasar 2017 participants to find your own.