Is There Any Correlation between Place-making and Place Attachment?: A Challenge for Interdisciplinary Research

This article expands on the usability of the concepts of “place making” and “place attachment” as recently developed in urban studies research in the context of housing insecurity of marginalized communities in today’s neo-liberal city. Particularly, against the growing threat of urban evictions, the article utilizes a transdisciplinary approach, showing the relevance of both concepts for (a) a better understanding of bottom-up processes of spatial production and attempts to create a sense of place on the part of such communities, and (b) offering an innovative legal strategy for doing justice to these communities in terms of their compensation rights, especially where a title to land has not been registered on a private basis. These issues are critically examined on the site-related case of the Givat-Amal quarter in Tel Aviv, Israel. This district is now under actual final threat of forced evictions following seven conflicted decades with the state, municipal authorities and private entrepreneurs. Our transdisciplinary study is based on qualitative methodologies in human geography such as fieldwork, visual evidence, and interviews, with a glimpse into philosophy. It is equally based on revisiting “traditional” legal property rights through the lens of post-liberal human rights analysis. The argument can apply to many situations of forced evictions across Africa, Latin America, and the West itself.

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Using photovoice method to explore the female freshmen's place attachment to the campus

Proceedings of the 56th ISOCARP World Planning Congress ◽

10.47472/nrkn9532 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yifan Yu ◽

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Qinglai Zhang ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Language Processing ◽

Place Attachment ◽

Research Method ◽

Emotional Experience ◽

University Campus ◽

Place Making ◽

Content Mining ◽

Processing Software ◽

Tongji University

University campus has a profound impact on the growth and development of college students. In this study, we use Photovoice method to explore how female freshmen perceive and build up the sentimental ties with the campus. Participants (n=54; aged 18-19 years) were asked to photograph and discuss perceived positive/negative places on Tongji University campus (Shanghai). In the process of analysis, thematic and content analysis was conducted by natural language processing software, the correlation of key words were examined by Rost Content Mining. The study shows that place attachment comes from the fulfilment of activity demand, which is not only related to the place function itself, but also caused by people’s place cognition and emotional experience. Architecture, roads(and its affiliated facilities), greening and landscape, public space, and atmosphere are particularly important for creating place cognition and emotional experience. Meanwhile, Photovoice, as an emerging participatory research method, shows great potential in the place-making, as it significantly improved the students’ participation, critical thinking and constructive suggestions in this campus study

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Community Ma(r)king in the linguistic landscape of the Ruhr Metropolis

Linguistic Landscape ◽

10.1075/ll.19031.zie ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 183-212

Author(s):

Evelyn Ziegler ◽

Ulrich Schmitz ◽

Haci-Halil Uslucan

Keyword(s):

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Linguistic Landscape ◽

Complex Phenomenon ◽

Place Making ◽

Telephone Interviews ◽

Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽

Multi Method Approach ◽

Shared Norms ◽

Method Approach ◽

Insight Into

Abstract Central for this paper is the assumption that the Linguistic Landscape is a complex phenomenon that provides an insight not only into practices of symbolic place-making of communities but also into the relation between place, language, and belonging. According to Tietz (2002), a community is based on shared norms and attitudes, a collectively binding horizon of values and understanding which also mark the boundaries of a community. Starting from these considerations, we will explore processes of community ma(r)king in the Ruhr Metropolis, Germany, drawing on data collected in the interdisciplinary research project Metropolenzeichen/Signs of the Metropolis (Ziegler et al., 2018). Our multi-method approach combines data of geocoded digital photographs (N = 25,504) with metalinguistic data collected in on-site interviews (N = 180) and telephone interviews (N = 1,000) to gain a deeper insight into the formation of communities in the Linguistic Landscape of the Ruhr Metropolis.

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