Place Attachment / edited by Irwin Altman, Setha M. Low.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Altman, Irwin, Editor.

Low, Setha M., Editor.

Series:

Human Behavior and Environment ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community psychology.

Community Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Community Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 1992.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In step with the growing interest in place attachment, this volume examines the phenomena from the perspective of several disciplines-including anthropology, folklore, and psychology-and points towards promising directions of future research.

Contents:

1 Place Attachment: A Conceptual Inquiry

Background

The Concept of Place Attachment

Some Aspects of Place Attachment

Development of Place Attachments

Role and Purpose of Place Attachment

Reprise

References

2 Attachment to the Ordinary Landscape

Biology, Culture, and Individual

Encounter, Time, and Fantasy

Questions and Directions for Future Research

Cautionary Notes

3 Attachment to Possessions

Attachment, Extended Self, and Possessions

Toward a Theory of Attachment to Possessions

Attachment to Possessions and Human Well-Being

Summary and Future Directions for Research

4 Childhood Place Attachments

Sources of Developing Attachment

Place Attachments in Object Relations Theory

Remembered Places

Reported and Presented Places

Directions for Future Research

5 Environmental Memories

Adult Memories of the Special Places of Childhood

Reproducing Special Places of Childhood in the Adult Home

The Current Home as a Contrast to That of Childhood, or as a Replay of Unresolved Childhood Problems

Aging and the Memories of Dwellings

Future Directions for Research

Conclusion

6 Home as a Workplace in the Lives of Women

Toward a Social Construction of Place Attachment

Domestic Ideology and the Myth of the Privatized Home

The Meaning of Work and “Women’s Work”

Home Workplaces in African-American Women’s Experience

Complex Bonds to Home: Homeworking Women Today

Conclusions and Future Directions

7 Attachment to Place and the Representation of the Life Course by the Elderly

Three Cases

An Integrative Model of Place Attachment in Later Life

Individual Definition, Collective Definition, and Centrality of Place

Conclusion and FutureDirections for Research

8 Symbolic Ties That Bind: Place Attachment in the Plaza

A Cultural Definition of Place Attachment

A Typology of Cultural Place Attachment

Plaza Ethnography: A Case Study of Place Attachment

Future Directions for Research and Design

9 Spaces That Teach: Attachment to the African Compound

The Importance of Place

The Neighborhood of Adabraka

The Urban Compound

Adabraka’s Compound Living

The Significance of Compound Space

Compound Order

Anthropology and Compound Attachment

Of Interest to Environmental Planners

Future Directions of Research—Design and Policy

10 Transcendence of Place: The Role of La Placeta in Valencia’s Las Fallas

Theoretical Background

History of Las Fallas

Organizational Structure

Ritual Transcendence

11 Thresholds to an Alternate Realm: Mapping the Chaseworld in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens

Theoretical Framework

Pine Barrens Foxhunting

Delineating the Chaseworld

Boundary Maintenance: Chaseworld Insiders and Outsiders

Place as Kommunicative Umwelt

Implications and Directions for Future Research

12 Community Attachment: Local Sentiment and Sense of Place

Community Sentiment: An Interdisciplinary Review

Community Sentiment and Sense of Place

Researching Community Sentiment: New Directions

13 Disruptions in Place Attachment

A Conceptual Framework

Disruptions to Attachment via Changes in Place Processes

Disruptions to Attachment via Changes in Places

Commonalities across Disruptions

Future Research Directions and Summary

References.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781468487534

1468487531