Defining place attachment in community base development program for urban settlement – a theoretical review

Abstract

Explanation toward community characteristics is required to improve the community empowerment for urban settlement improvement. The aimed characteristic is relation between community and the living space as ‘place attachment’. This paper defines theoretical definition of place attachment in the context of empowerment program. It is a basic perspective of analytical framework of community’s engagement. This paper conducts content analysis technique in building the interrelation among the expert’s argumentations about related matters. As the results there is a hypothesis: place attachment refers to people’s individual perception toward their living-place, leads to their basic motivation of community attachment, and improve their participation.