The way that elder relate to and identify with their neighborhoods is considered to be an important reason affecting continued living in place. Predilection for ageing in place becomes even more ...dominant as individuals grow older, despite of undermined social support system, and deterioration in the physical condition of the neighborhood. A positive neighborhood that supports continued activity, social interaction, and accessible services can potentially contribute to successful aging in place. The purpose of this investigation was to examine place identity and its relation to place dependence, place quality, and place attachment as perceived by elders living in neighborhoods with different levels of maintenance. Findings showed that place attachment, place dependence and place quality were moderately and strongly correlated with place identity. Place attachment and place dependence were found to be higher in well-maintained neighborhoods, but no significant differences were found in place identity with regard to the declined neighborhoods. Different dimensions were observed to have a contribution as predictors of place identity in each type of neighborhood. While services quality and place dependence were found to be additional predictors of place identity in well-maintained neighborhoods, independence and quality of the physical environment resulted the unique predictors of place identity in the neighborhoods. Place attachment was found to be the most important predictor of place identity in both types of neighborhoods. Findings from this study are considered for the design of neighborhoods for elder people.
About the Editors Casakin, Hernan; Bernardo, Fatima
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Hernan Casakin Dr. Hernan Casakin, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture, Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture and Town Planning from the ...University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, and a Master and a PhD in Architecture from the Technion - IIT, Haifa, Israel. His professional experience includes appointments as Research Fellow in the Department of Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science, Hamburg University, Germany, and in the Environmental Simulation Laboratory, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He was invited as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TUDelft, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands during the year 2012. Hernan is a board member of a number of international architectural and design journals that includes: Open Environmental Sciences- Bentham Open, Journal of Town & City Management, Icograda Journal of Design Research, and the Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Part of his research focuses on environmental issues like wayfinding, place attachment, sense of place, and place identity. He published widely in international peer reviewed journals, eBook chapters, and eBook proceedings of international conferences. Fátima Bernardo Fátima Bernardo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Évora in Portugal. She is responsible for the disciplines of environmental psychology, and social psychology. She is also a Research Assistant in the Center for Urban and Regional Systems (CESUR), Technical Institute of the Technical University of Lisbon. She holds 5 years degree in Psychology and Master in Psychology from the Superior Institute of Applied Psychology, pos-Graduation in Environmental Psychology and Education.and PhD in Environmental Psychology in Évora University, Portugal. She has been involved in multi-disciplinary research projects at national and European levels, in particular in risk perception, landscape perception, and place identity. Her research has been published in international peer reviewed journals, eBook chapters, and eBook proceedings of international conferences.
Foreword Casakin, Hernan; Bernardo, Fatima
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In a rapidly changing world, how do place identity and place attachment have relevance to people's everyday lives and to professional design and planning? In various ways, this question underlies all ...the chapters of this volume, expressed through a wide range of conceptual perspectives and approaches. Place identity, place attachment, genius loci, people-place interaction, place-based planning and design are all valuable concepts and approaches that can help bridge divisions between research and practice and between academic knowledge and everyday life. Contributors to the volume convincingly demonstrate how the themes of place, place identity, and place making can facilitate valuable linkages among a wide range of disciplines and professions, including architecture, sociology, geography, environmental psychology, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning. </p><p> Increasing awareness of environmental and architectural experience was a major aim of humanistic geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, one of the earliest academic proponents for studying place and place identity. In his 1977 Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, he laid out a provocative set of questions for which today we still do not have thorough answers: </p><p> How do we describe "familiarity," that quality of "at homeness" we feel towards a person or place? What kinds of intimate places can be planned, and what cannot-at least, no more than we can plan for deeply human encounters? Are space and place the environmental equivalents of the human need for adventure and safety, openness and definition? How long does it take to form a lasting attachment to place? Is the sense of place a quality of awareness poised between being rooted in place, which is unconscious, and being alienated, which goes with exacerbated consciousness-and exacerbated because it is only or largely mental? How do we promote the visibility of rooted communities that lack striking visual symbols? What is the loss and gain in such promotion?" (Tuan, 1977, p. 202). </p><p> The contributors to this volume offer a wide range of intriguing answers to Tuan questions. The chapters provide, on one hand, valuable knowledge regarding place identity and, on the other hand, inspiring insights regarding place creation. Planning, envisioning, and actualizing sustainable communities and places is a challenging task demanding an understanding and approach that move beyond arbitrary, piecemeal policies and fashionable, image-driven design. The chapters of this volume offer much in advancing a more robust, comprehensive place making grounded in the needs and actions of people-inplace. </p><p> REFERENCE </p><p> Tuan, Y. (1977). Place and Space: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
As a contribution to previous literature dealing with identity and the physical environment, this eBook offers a deep insight about the role played by place identity with regard to architecture and ...the city. A major interest resides in exploring from a multidisciplinary perspective, how place identity affects and is affected by the bonds established between people and their environments. Considering that place identity is a controversial issue that continues to generate passionate discussion and not little discrepancy, this eBook is as an attempt to contribute to this debate. The volume is aimed at a broad audience of practitioners, educators, and researchers that embraces: architects and landscape architects, town planners and urban designers, environmental psychologists and environmental sociologists, ecologists, semioticians, geographers, folklorists and philosophers interested in the environment.
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Acknowledgements Casakin, Hernan; Bernardo, Fatima
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Deep thanks are due to all the contributors, and the following referees for their valuable comments, and insights to this eBook: Mariela Alfonzo (USA) Mirilia Bonnes (Italy) Jonh Cameron (Australia) ...Sylvia Cavalcante (Brasil) Rui Gaspar de Carvalho (Portugal) Kaliopa Dimitrovska Andrews (Slovenia) Gabriella Esposito (Italy) Isabel Loupa Ramos (Portugal) Patricia Mosconi (Argentina) Bianca Petrelli (Italy) Ashraf Salama (Quatar) Helena Ter?v?inen (Finland)
Index Casakin, Hernan; Bernardo, Fatima
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Three Studio Critiquing Cultures Gabriela Goldschmidt; Hernan Casakin; Yonni Avidan ...
Analyzing Design Review Conversations,
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During the Renaissance, design reached an unprecedented peak, and began establishing itself with a separate identity—no longer part of art or the crafts. Architecture, and later engineering (and much ...later industrial design), acquired the status of independent professions, which eventually led to the establishment of formal education in these disciplines, starting in the 17th century.
The various emerging schools offered practical training, fortified by scientific and general studies. In most cases, they included a project-based practicum component. In the École des Beaux-Arts the practical work was undertaken in the atelier, French for studio. All modern educational programs in design
The research investigated the concept of place identity based on the principles presented in the model of identity motivation by Drostelis and Vignoles. The study was carried out in Pilsen, Chicago, ...a neighborhood with a strong presence of the Mexican community. The major aim was to investigate the importance of place identity principles in this cultural and physical context. The goal was to learn how Mexicans, in comparison to White Americans, establish identity ties with their environment. A number of servicescapes characterized by the use of cultural metaphors were selected as case studies. The present work added further clarity to the relation between place and identity. It provided evidence for the use of cultural metaphors in the preservation and development of a number of identity processes. The study enabled to identify existing differences between Mexicans, the more emotionally related to the neighborhood, and the White-Americans, the less attached group. Cultural metaphors in servicescapes allowed Mexicans to express their feelings and emotions towards their culture in different ways reflected throughout a variety of identity principles, classified into psychological needs and motives, as well as social and symbolic links to places.
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