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Place Attachment and Scale (02-15-10)

Often designers want to develop spaces that will strike an emotional chord with users, and one of the ways to do this is to include literal or figurative representations of valued locations.  Lewicka has investigated the relationship between scale of place (apartment, building, neighborhood, city district, and city) and strength of place attachment.  Attachment is weakest for middle levels of scale. Place attachment is a measure of emotional bonding to a place.

 

Maria Lewicka.  2010.  “What Makes Neighborhood Different From Home and City?  Effects of Place Scale on Place Attachment.”  Journal of Environmental Psychology, vol. 30, pp. 35-51.

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