Restorative campus landscapes and student engagement: Dual affective pathways linking environmental perception to learning and social interaction.

This study investigates the influence of the image of Riyadh City as a host for sporting events on tourists’ intentions to revisit, emphasizing the mediating role of place attachment. Drawing on destination image theory and the attachment framework, the study conceptualizes city image across four dimensions—natural environment, general touristic infrastructure, tourism offers, and urban environment. A quantitative design was employed using data from 422 tourists who attended major sporting events in Riyadh, such as international football and boxing matches. PLS-SEM was used to test the proposed relationships. The results reveal that all four dimensions of city image significantly and positively influence both place attachment and revisit intention. Furthermore, place attachment mediates the relationship between city image and revisit intention, indicating that emotional connection to Riyadh amplifies tourists’ loyalty. This study adds to the existing tourism literature by explaining a sport event-based city image which leads to behavioral intentions through affection or emotional bonds. On practical grounds, this research will be useful for policymakers and tourism marketers in Saudi Arabia who are eager to make Riyadh one of the leading sports tourism destinations under Vision 2030’s agenda on diversification and global city branding.

Urban heritage conservation amidst rapid city transformation frequently prioritises the preservation of tangible structures over the continuity of daily life. In Chengdu, a southwestern Chinese city, which is experiencing intense redevelopment of its historic districts, the built environment has been meticulously preserved, while numerous collective socio-cultural practices have diminished. This research advocates for a synthesised approach to heritage assessment, bridging form-based and life-based evaluations through a dual analytical framework. This framework integrates qualitative pattern-based interpretation with quantitative Urban MorphoMetric modelling—a Python-based geospatial analytical approach. We examine six historic neighbourhoods—Shaocheng, Caoshijie, Ma’an, Jianshe Rd., Zhiminlu, and Fuqin—to investigate how varied urban morphologies either facilitate or impede the persistence of quotidian cultural practices. Ethnographic fieldwork identified recurrent spatial patterns, such as open-air markets, communal dancing, gardening, and teahouses. These patterns were subsequently correlated with 296 MorphoMetric descriptors that capture aspects of enclosure, density, and connectivity. MorphoMetric clustering delineated thirty-two distinct urban typologies, each associated with varying intensities of social interaction and place attachment. Our findings elucidate how concrete spatial configurations underpin intangible cultural resilience and how computational metrics can augment qualitative insights in identifying the living dimensions of heritage. By integrating behavioural observation with spatial measurement, this paper introduces a reproducible framework for assessing living heritage as a hybrid material and social system, thereby charting new pathways for sustainable heritage planning in rapidly urbanising Chinese metropolises and potential extensions to the international sphere.

ABSTRACT Urban parkettes as green spaces are vital for several landscape values. They are realms for place attachments (PA) through place dependence (PD) and place identity (PI). Growing concern is on dwindling green spaces due to rapid urbanization. Studies that illuminate PA within urban parkettes in the African context are scanty. This exploratory case study on Kigali City’s urban parkettes within the central business district analyzes user perceptions on landscape values, examines the relationship between landscape values and PA, and lastly determines which landscape values are most predictive of PA. A mixed‑method approach with 185 on-site survey respondents, 14 interviews, and field investigation through observations, photography and mapping was used. Findings revealed that air quality and aesthetic values (mean 4.25 and 4.10) are the most important, while economic values (mean 2.50) ranked the least. There was a moderate positive correlation between the landscape values and PD, and a weaker result for PI. The landscape values are statistically significant positive predictors of PD and PI, thus impacting PA. The study concluded that landscape amenities and activities influence attachments to the parkettes. The recommendations are important for policy and practice to prioritize PA metrics in urban landscape place‑making of green spaces.

This study examines how olive oil SMEs in Palestine and Greece construct and communicate sustainability as a marketing narrative, addressing four research questions: how sustainability is defined by producers, how these meanings translate into marketing narratives, what ethical logics underpin communication practices, and how macro-contextual factors shape narrative convergences and divergences. Conceptualizing sustainability as a contextually embedded system of meaning shaped by socio-political, institutional, and moral conditions, the research adopts a qualitative comparative multiple-case study design. Data were collected through 60 semi-structured interviews with SME owners, production managers, and marketing coordinators (30 per context), complemented by marketing materials analysis and exploratory consumer feedback (n=16). Thematic analysis with a structured coding hierarchy was employed, achieving saturation after the 25th interview per context. Findings reveal that sustainability functions as a narrative mechanism for articulating legitimacy, authenticity, and continuity. Greek SMEs frame sustainability through heritage, certification, and market legitimacy, reflecting integration into European institutional regimes. Palestinian SMEs construct sustainability through moral responsibility, resilience, and place attachment, shaped by political constraints and economic precarity. Exploratory consumer insights suggest that narrative reception is context-dependent: certification-based claims resonate in regulated markets, while moral narratives gain traction among culturally proximate audiences. The study contributes a conceptual framework positioning sustainability as a dynamic, relational narrative construction process, advancing sustainability marketing literature through a moral economy perspective. This shifts analytical attention from predefined sustainability indicators to producer-driven sensemaking and provides five testable propositions for future cross-context research on sustainability communication in agri-food systems.

Urban green spaces (UGSs) are considered crucial for enhancing older adults’ subjective well-being. However, limited studies have explored the synergistic effects of UGS quality and quantity on satisfaction across green spaces, residential environments, and life domains, making it challenging to uncover the multifaceted sustainable benefits of UGSs on older adults’ subjective well-being. This study drew on multi-source data and place attachment theory to depict neighborhood-accessible UGS quantity (provision, accessibility, and visibility) and quality (cognition, behavior, and affect). Through the geographical visualization of bivariate SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) interaction values extracted from the trained eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model, and the comparison of bivariate SHAP maps with univariate SHAP maps, the study revealed the nonlinear geographic associations between UGS quantity and quality and three types of satisfaction. The results showed that when UGS quantity and quality coexisted, variations in the impact of quantity on older adults’ satisfaction were associated with quality differences. The gain effect of quality on quantity was more significant in areas with limited green space within a 500 m buffer zone. UGSs made a direct contribution to green space satisfaction, while their indirect association with life satisfaction surpassed that of residential satisfaction due to their provision of emotional qualities. This study calls for neighborhood green planning aimed at improving older adults’ subjective well-being, which should shift focus from quantity to quality and balance the relationship between quantity and quality based on regional characteristics.

ABSTRACT This study examines how tourist-to-tourist interaction affects tourists’ internal states that drive their positive evaluations of the hotel’s economic value. A stimulus-organism-response model was developed, incorporating social servicecape and tourist-to-tourist interaction as stimuli, self-congruity and place attachment as the organism, and willingness to pay more as the response. Survey data collected from 405 British tourists at a five-star all-inclusive hotel offering a well-designed social servicescape. Results showed that the social servicescape enhances tourist-to-tourist interactions, fostering self-congruity and place attachment. These internal evaluations, in turn, predict willingness to pay more.

This study establishes and applies a cognitive–emotional–spatial framework to examine young people’s perceptions of cultural heritage on digital platforms, with Shuhe Ancient Town as the case. Drawing on user-generated content from Weibo, Xiaohongshu, and Ctrip, the research integrates thematic clustering, sentiment analysis, and spatial modelling to build a multi-dimensional cross-platform database. Findings reveal a dual structure in youth perceptions: social platforms highlight identity and emotional expression, while transactional platforms emphasise functional attributes and satisfaction. Although sentiment is overall positive, authenticity and immersive experiences act as key triggers for deeper emotions, anchored in nodes and boundaries that sustain dwelling and attachment. These results delineate a recursive mechanism that extends place attachment theory through a digital mediation pathway and exposes tensions with authorised heritage discourse. Methodologically, the study demonstrates the value of cross-platform comparison, and practically, it offers guidance for heritage landscape design and participatory governance attentive to younger generations.

ABSTRACT Urban kampung revitalisation in Indonesia is frequently planned without children, neglecting its effects on their well-being. This study explores how community-led revitalisation enhances children’s well-being through place attachment. Using a qualitative case study in Kampung Kreatif, North Jakarta, ‘draw-and-tell’ exercises and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 children aged 6–12 and analysed thematically. Children consistently described the renewed neighbourhood as a “happy place,” linking well-being to security from cleaner, safer surroundings, agency through new play and participation, and a positive sense of self from collective pride. This study concludes that community-driven revitalisation, builds happier places with children, not merely for them.

ABSTRACT Where does mobility begin? Environmental changes often induce small-scale movements that typically fall through the cracks of most conceptual and methodological discussions of environmental mobility. This study examines such “micro-mobilities” – frequent, short-range household shifts that remain largely invisible in conventional migration statistics yet constitute a crucial adaptive coping strategy. Empirically, I investigate the micro-mobilities encountered along Bangladesh’s Jamuna River, where yearly recurring riverbank erosion and flooding force households to repeatedly relocate, often over very short distances. Drawing on a four-wave panel survey of 1,515 households across 36 erosion-prone sites (2021–2024), I describe the prevalence and spatial patterns of micro-mobility, and identify factors associated with relocation decisions. Results show that households dismantle and move entire houses, frequently remaining within their village community (67% of all observed whole-household moves, moving on average 580 metres). Moves are strongly constrained by land availability, costs, and social ties, with place attachment and economic limitations often outweighing the benefits of migrating farther away. These findings highlight the importance of micro-mobility as a distinct form of coping with climatic changes, challenging the dominant narrative of large-scale climate migration and underscoring the need to integrate small-scale, locally meaningful movements into climate (im)mobility research, policy, and practice.

This article explores how older adults experience relocation and adjust to life amid processes of urban renewal. Transformations in their physical and social surroundings can unsettle established routines and weaken place attachment, a disruption often compounded by age-related physical and cognitive constraints. Even so, the relocated participants exhibit adaptive resilience, developing new mobility patterns that allow them to engage with affective atmospheres and social infrastructures across different settings. The research project employed a qualitative geographic information systems approach, integrating sedentary and go-along interviews with Global Positioning System tracking techniques. It involved forty-one older adults living in Dawson, a housing site in Singapore where former residents of a mature estate, Tanglin Halt, were relocated under Singapore’s Selective En Bloc Redevelopment Scheme. These older adults participate in diverse affective atmospheres and modes of place-making during adaptation, which this article argues are not reducible to place attachment and belonging alone. Rather, their explorations across neighborhoods cultivate autonomy and evoke affective responses such as nostalgia, curiosity, and wonder—feelings that broaden and enrich the experience of aging. By highlighting the interconnections between affective atmospheres, mobility practices, and social infrastructures in later life, the study offers deeper insight into aging and urban renewal.

Neighborhood influences on emerging adulthood (ages 18–29) remain understudied despite their role in shaping identity, independence, and health. This qualitative study examines neighborhood place attachment during this life stage using seated and mobile “go-along” interviews from the Neighborhood and Health at All Ages Study . The analysis focuses on a theory-driven subsample of 14 emerging adults in Minneapolis-St. Paul (MN), analyzed using inductive reflexive thematic analysis with coding, debriefing, and triangulation of interview and observational data. Participants represented diverse racial/ethnic, gender, and sexual identities; analyses explored shared processes rather than subgroup comparisons. Three themes were identified: neighborhoods as foundations of belonging, gateways to independence, and sites of identity formation. Attachment depended less on residential permanence than on alignment between developmental needs and neighborhood opportunities. Findings highlight how mobility, accessibility, and socially welcoming local environments support transitions to adulthood and suggest planning approaches that foster belonging during periods of life transition.

ABSTRACT The Metaverse shows significant potential to support collaboration by enabling immersive virtual environments for collective work and learning. However, its effectiveness is often limited by a lack of user trust and engagement . By contextualizing and extending the interactionist theory of place attachment, this study theorizes spatial familiarity as a core feature of Metaverse, examining its mechanisms for fostering perceptions of virtual environments as reliable and engaging places for collaboration. With this end in view, this research followed a sequential mixed-methods approach, with the qualitative method first developing the context-specific research model by identifying key factors that enable Metaverse-based collaboration, and then the quantitative method validating the model. The results together indicate that the spatial familiarity of Metaverse enables individuals to engage in virtual environments for collaboration both directly and mediated by trust. Importantly, the efficacy of spatial familiarity is particularly pronounced when a person perceives a high level of avatar human-likeness but diminishes when her self-regulation is high. By uncovering the theoretical mechanisms through which spatial stimuli contribute to trust-building in collaborative Metaverse contexts, this study also offers practical implications for designing and managing virtual environments for collaborative purposes.

ABSTRACT This study examines whether involvement with geographically indicated (GI) products helps explain destination-related attitudes and environmentally responsible behavior. Building on prior GI product research, the study extends the literature in two ways: it separates place attachment into place dependence and place identity, and it incorporates destination advocacy into the same structural model. Data were collected from 429 consumers in Türkiye who had previous experience with GI products. The proposed model was tested with PLS-SEM. The findings show that GI product involvement positively affects place dependence (β = 0.567, p < 0.001), place identity (β = 0.542, p < 0.001), and environmentally responsible behavior (β = 0.235, p < 0.001). Place dependence (β = 0.546, p < 0.001) and place identity (β = 0.188, p = 0.002) also positively affect destination advocacy, while destination advocacy exerts a significant positive effect on environmentally responsible behavior (β = 0.497, p < 0.001). These findings show that involvement with GI products is linked to stronger place attachment, greater destination advocacy, and more environmentally responsible behavior. The study contributes to the tourism and GI literature by offering an integrated explanation of how product-based attachment, destination-oriented advocacy, and responsible behavior are linked in a single model.

ABSTRACT This article examines adaptive reuse of silo structures through Kevin Lynch’s concepts of landmark and sense of place, focusing on how design interventions mediate the re-entry of industrial heritage into the city image and public realm. Seven international cases are comparatively analysed to assess how façade treatment, programme change, and public accessibility shape legibility, symbolic continuity, and place attachment. Findings show that interventions preserving monumental legibility while enabling public encounter support stronger perceived urban integration. The article contributes to urban studies by clarifying how design choices operate within broader heritage-led urban transformation.

Building façade color plays a significant role in shaping urban culture, city image, and residential experiences. Yet, in many urban planning practices, the significance of building façade color is often overlooked or treated as a secondary consideration, despite its potential to enhance or detract from a sense of place. This study investigates building façade color, isolating it as an independent variable, examining hue, saturation, and brightness as main factors influencing the dimensions of sense of place, namely: place identity, place attachment, and place dependence. Multiple digitally manipulated building façade color photographs were prepared according to the HSB color model, with data gathered through a semantic differential questionnaire supported by multiple-choice and dichotomous questions. the results indicate that the existing façade color, white/neutral, forms the strongest place identity and attachment. Among the simulated color variations, participants reported a stronger sense of place for cool blue and the warm yellow façades. Color characteristics also influenced emotional evaluations, where a more positive emotional response was recorded with low-to-mid saturation (25%-50%) while brightness preferences varied by façade hue rather than exhibiting a uniform optimal range. The study was conducted in the Royal Empire Apartments complex in Erbil, providing a real residential context for examining these effects. These findings highlight the important role played by building façade color in shaping a sense of place, emphasizing the need color design to balance carefully against contextual fit, perceptual comfort, and user preference.

Understanding Vietnamese youth camping tourism: The roles of motivation, benefit perception, attitude, and place attachment

Rainwater harvesting systems (RWHS) play a vital role in water resource management, particularly in developing countries such as Iran. Amid declining rainfall and increasing drought conditions, these systems offer a sustainable solution for agricultural water supply, reduce financial costs, and lessen reliance on surface and groundwater resources. However, limited adoption of RWHS by farmers remains a significant challenge for policymakers seeking to promote sustainable water practices. This study aimed to examine the factors influencing Iranian farmers’ intention to adopt RWHS, focusing on farmers in Hamidieh County, located in southwestern Iran. To guide the analysis, an extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) model was employed, incorporating three additional constructs—response efficacy (RE), risk perception (RP), and place attachment (PA)—alongside the original components: attitude toward behavior (ATT), subjective norms (SN), and perceived behavioral control (PBC). The findings revealed that the proposed framework demonstrated strong explanatory power, accounting for 74.2% of the variance in farmers’ intention to adopt RWHS. These results underscore the model’s effectiveness and offer valuable insights for policymakers aiming to enhance sustainable water resource strategies and boost agricultural productivity. Overall, the study contributes meaningfully to the discourse on agricultural water management and provides practical guidance for designing targeted interventions to encourage RWHS adoption among farmers. • Sustainable management of agricultural water • Rainwater harvesting for irrigation • Developing a planned behavior model using place attachment theory.

Place attachment and social support during pandemic: Evidence from Taiwan

Abstract This paper explores the sustainability of sacred processional landscapes and mandapams associated with Kallalagar Festival in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, focusing on how the cultural traditions intersect with urban sustainability. Adopting a mixed-methods research framework, the study integrates field observations with quantitative data from questionnaire surveys to assess the festival-led transformation of economic, environmental, spatial, social, and cultural dimensions. The analysis is further informed by Scannell and Gifford’s Tripartite Model of Place Attachment, which enables an in-depth understanding of how emotional, social, and physical bonds with a place contribute towards a long-term stewardship and sustainable reuse. The findings highlight that the Kallalagar festival catalyzes the reactivation of underutilized mandapams through temporary, ritual-based uses, which simultaneously support environmental conservation, stimulate local economies, and strengthen the communal ties. This research work reveals that the mandapams persist not solely for its historical or architectural value, but because it continue to hold ritual, social, and spatial relevance in day to day lives of the community. By bridging the intangible cultural practices with tangible-built environments, the Kallalagar festival exemplifies how sacred urban spaces can remain resilient and sustainable through participatory and context-sensitive approaches.