Place attachment in supporting the preservation of religious historical built environment

Abstract

The place attachment theory is a scientific part of the relationship between human behavior and built environment study. The built environment study explains the existence of a building and its landscape. The place attachment theory has been used in studying the relationship between human behavior with a religious and historic environment during its development. However, nowadays, this research rarely conducted and often carried out partially. As a consequence, the result analysis is only partially. This study proposed a holistically place attachment to provide a broader discourse in examining the relationship between human behavior and the built environment holistically. Moreover, place attachment theory will be used to preserve the historical religious built environment. In addition, the literature review from the previous studies and discussion methods are essential to support the research. The result shows that there is an opportunity to conduct a study of place attachment theory in supporting the preservation of the historical religious built environment. Thus, the holistic result can be obtained using the place attachment theory, which is the combination of place identity, place dependence, place affect, and place social bonding.