1- Art University of Isfahan
2- Art University of Isfahan , m.ghalehnoee@aui.ac.ir
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After the 1970s, with attention to the social outcomes of urban spaces, human-place interactions have been the focus of much research. Meanwhile, "sense of place" is a concept that, together with other widely used concepts in the field of human-place interactions (i.e. attachment to place, dependence on place, and place identity), has always been of interest. Although there is a critical need for a correct understanding and comprehensive explanation of the sense of place concept for its proper study, evaluation, measurement and application, there are scattered bodies of studies in terms of sense of place conceptualisation, its dimensions and components, and conceptual models in the field of environmental design research. Therefore, in this article has been tried to understand the concept of sense of place, its dimensions and components, and its correlated and close concepts in the field of human-place studies, and to identify and extract key concepts and theoretical perspectives in studies in the field of sense of place, via systematic narrative synthesis research strategy, to present a conceptual model of sense of place. In this context, narrative review is a research strategy to describe and discuss scientific theories and literature on a specific topic in a coherent and comprehensive narrative form along with a unified synthetic model. Thus, in this study, by identifying the original and complementary research articles, and based on the similarities and differences of the key concepts and theoretical perspectives in the selected studies, the final model combining these perspectives has been provided. Based on this research, the conceptual model of sense of place, and based on the validation and its credibility, including the proposed concepts, dimensions and components, have three aspects of "intrinsic", "multidimensional" and "relative" nature. In this respect, the sense of place in this model expresses a complex system of internal connections between different affective, cognitive and conative dimensions of human-place interactions, and involves different levels of human-place interactions. Furthermore, the conceptual model presented is able to explain the correlation of sense of place with other commonly used concepts in the field, including place attachment, place dependence and place identity, and has many implications for future research and application in the field of urban design and planning.
Keywords: Sense of Place, Dimensions and components of Sense of Place, Theoretical Perspectives on Sense of Place, Conceptual Model of Sense of Place.
Article number: 168