Place Attachment Research
The main characteristic of the concept of place attachment, (Ainsworth & Bell, 1970) “the propensity of human beings to seek out the place in which they feel comfortable and secure”, the effective bond that people have with the place they habituate has rarely been explicitly emphasized (Hidalgo).
However, as Riley noted: “the affective attachments to ideas, people, psychological states, past experiences, and culture” are the crucial element of the concept. “And it is through the vehicle of particular environmental settings that these individual, group, and cultural processes are manifested.” The place, therefore, may be defined as a medium or milieu which embeds and is a repository of a variety of life experiences, is central to those experiences,
However, as Riley noted: “the affective attachments to ideas, people, psychological states, past experiences, and culture” are the crucial element of the concept. “And it is through the vehicle of particular environmental settings that these individual, group, and cultural processes are manifested.” The place, therefore, may be defined as a medium or milieu which embeds and is a repository of a variety of life experiences, is central to those experiences,