Abstract
Outdoor environment can have significant connections with place relationships. This study tried to explore the connection in detail. First, the relationship was examined through an integrated view of environmental planning, followed by reviewing impacts of essential elements from the outdoor environment on place relationships. Residents of three public housing communities in Taiwan were surveyed. Each community had a different layout: alley, cluster, and large courtyard. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that outdoor community planning features can be grouped into four factors: outdoor space quality, circulation planning, outdoor recreational facilities, and community layout. Canonical correlation analyses indicate different combinations of these factors were connected to diverse combinations of place relationship dimensions. More importantly, higher levels of satisfaction toward outdoor space quality as well as community layout were associated with greater place attachment and less community participation. Higher levels of satisfaction with circulation planning were connected to greater place attachment and community participation, and less social interaction. Multiple regression analyses found the associations between the community planning features and place relationship dimensions differed among the alley, cluster, and large courtyard. These findings can help planners and architects design public housing and similar communities that better enhance the emotional and social experiences of the inhabitants.
Highlights
The interactions between characteristics of the physical environment and residents’ psychological responses are of great interest to architects, landscape architects, and urban planners
Community planning factors were found to have significant connections with the three dimensions of place relationships investigated in this study
The community planning factors investigated could be grouped into four different factors, those dealing outdoor space quality, circulation planning, outdoor recreational facilities, as well as community layout and administration
Summary
The interactions between characteristics of the physical environment and residents’ psychological responses are of great interest to architects, landscape architects, and urban planners. Of particular importance is how outdoor community planning features affect residents’ place attachment, social interactions, and community participation. How does satisfaction with these community planning features influence all three dimensions of residents’ place relationship considered together? Of the studies examining the relationships between the outdoor environment and place attachment [6,7], social interaction [6,8,9], and community participation [10,11,12], none, to the best of our knoSwuslteaidnagbielit,yh20a1v8,e10a, xnFaOlRyPzEeEdR RtEhVeIEeWffects on all three concepts at the same time. Nenevtesrtshiemleussl,taneously influence tphlaensneetrhs raened cdoesnigcneeprtsso?f Wthehuartbeanffencvtsirodnomceinrtcuofltaentiofoncupsloannnsiitengscaplerofevaitduereds.bTyheoseuftedaotuorreswalkways or parkinginsvpoalvceetshhosaeviem?mTedhieataelnysswurerorsuntdointghepsueblqicuheosutisoinngsccoomumludnoitifefseranimd rpeosirdteanntitalinapsaigrthmtesnitsn.to how to design outHidnofolwuoerdneocenestvhsiearstoeisntfhamcrteeieonnctoswnctithehpatttsh?beWeqtuhtaaeltriteymffeaecnetdstdltaohyceoiurnctsueleoafdtitoshneospfeltaohnunetidnuogsoepr rreosnv.viTidrehodnembpyeunotrusptdsoiomsoeur lowtafanltekhowiusasylsystudy, is an initiaol rapttaerkminpgtstpoacfiesllhtahvies?kTnheowanlsewdegrsetgo athpe.se questions could offer important insights into how to design outdoor environments that better meet the needs of the users.
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