Abstract
Environmental qualities significantly affect the behaviors and place attachment of users, especially in residential areas. In addition to creating environmental comfort, local green spaces can increase users’ place attachment, improve their mood, enhance friendly company and facilitate social interactions. The study sought to investigate the impact of local green spaces in the historically and culturally valuable residential fabric of Hamadan City in Iran on increasing residents’ social attachment. Derived from the literature on the subject, the conceptual model of the study shows the impact of such factors as social, functional, emotional and spatial bonds on place attachment in the residential context. A total number of 410 residents in the old neighborhoods of Hamadan City were selected by random sampling with a balanced proportion of gender and residence duration in the selected area. The designed questionnaire was distributed among the sample population and the collected data were analyzed using the structural equation modeling method. Then, the t-test and bootstrapping in Smart PLS software were used for testing the research hypotheses and evaluating the significance of the relationships between the research variables in the structural model. The results indicated that among the four types of bonds examined in relation to place attachment, emotional bonds, functional bonds, social bonds and spatial bonds, respectively, had a direct and significant impact on place attachment from the viewpoint of residents. The stronger the sociocultural bonds in historically and culturally valuable residential areas, the more prominent the role of local green spaces in place attachment based on residence duration becomes.
Highlights
The urban development framework influenced and shaped by modernist and postmodernist approaches has failed to fulfill many of the biological and social needs of urban life during the past few decades [1]
Considering that residential areas were selected for study and that this research was about an assessment of place attachment, qualitative approaches could not be effectively used for measuring and evaluating the indicators used indicators of of place place attachment
The results of this study revealed that local green spaces and old trees as part of natural heritage play an important role in promoting local communities’ attachment to their homes through emotional, social, functional and place dimensions., Among them, “emotional bond” had the greatest, while “place bond” had a minimal effect on enhancing place attachment
Summary
The urban development framework influenced and shaped by modernist and postmodernist approaches has failed to fulfill many of the biological and social needs of urban life during the past few decades [1]. In the first two decades of the 18th century, urban development, ecology and technology experts revisited the classical definitions of modern infrastructures to address the challenges rising against these infrastructures in the post-industrial era. They started to analyze and criticize various approaches to the development of modern infrastructures in the post-industrial era and to provide more fitting definitions for these infrastructures. Numerous solutions and strategies were proposed by these experts including the idea of “green infrastructure”
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