Place Attachment

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

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.

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Altman, Irwin (Editor), Low, Setha M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1992.
Edition:1st ed. 1992.
Series:Human Behavior and Environment ; 12
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
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Table of 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
  • References
  • 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
  • References
  • 4 Childhood Place Attachments
  • Sources of Developing Attachment
  • Place Attachments in Object Relations Theory
  • Remembered Places
  • Reported and Presented Places
  • Directions for Future Research
  • References
  • 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
  • References
  • 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
  • References
  • 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 Future Directions for Research
  • References
  • 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
  • References
  • 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
  • References
  • 10 Transcendence of Place: The Role of La Placeta in Valencia’s Las Fallas
  • Theoretical Background
  • History of Las Fallas
  • Organizational Structure
  • Ritual Transcendence
  • Conclusion
  • Directions for Future Research
  • References
  • 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
  • References
  • 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
  • References
  • 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.

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