Sustainable Walkability And Place Identity
, 2007 The sustainability of a place depends on a series of factors which contribute to the quality of life, sense of place and recognition of identity. An activity like walking, which in itself is obviously ''sustainable'', can become non sustainable if the context in which it is carried out does not meet the conditions for an adequate quality of life.
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'I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from': The meaning of place in social work with children and families [PDF]
, 2015 Although social work around the world is understood to be a ‘person-in-environment’ activity, policy in UK places more emphasis on individual characteristics than on environmental influences on development and behaviour.
Jack, Gordon
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Networked Migrations: Listening to and performing the in-between space (Paper) [PDF]
, 2014 Two internet-based sonic performances, Letters and Bridges (between Leicester and Mexico City), and Migratory Dreams (between London and Bogotá), were developed by the artist with the leading question of what the 'in-between' space (Bhaba 1994; Ortega ...
Alarcon, Ximena
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Urban identity and planning: Conceptual study on identity of urban, identity in urban, and identity for urban [PDF]
SpatiumUrban identity is gaining increasing attention across different research disciplines. However, there is no consensus as to how this concept can be integrated into planning theory, because every discipline has diverse concepts of urban identity, which are
Umar Fitrawan +2 more
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Keep it looking beautiful! Historicised residential architecture as a means of reproducing the middle class self [PDF]
, 2012 This paper explores how residents of Helmond Brandevoort, a neotraditional neighbourhood in the Netherlands, socially construct a 'classed' place identity and what role the historicised architecture plays within that process. Given that place identity is
Meier, Sabine
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Peoples’ use of, and concerns about, green space networks: A case study of Birchwood, Warrington New Town, UK [PDF]
, 2010 Cultural services provided by green space networks and in particular leisure and recreational opportunities are central to the quality of life of those living in urban areas. However, the literature concerned with green space networks has mainly focussed
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Sense of Place and Place Identity [PDF]
European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research, 2014 The paper describes the relationship between identity and the physical environment: social identity theory, place- identity theory and identity process theory. The place identity is focused on the relationship between people and the environmental psychology.
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“God’s little acre” and “Belfast Chinatown”: Diversity and Ethnic Place Identity in Belfast [PDF]
For members of ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland, place making can mean negotiating challenges posed by tensions between the two majority communities of Catholic, nationalist, republican and Protestant, unionist, loyalist; tensions which are ...
Suzanna Chan
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Escape to the beach : pre-retirement in-migrants' narratives of change, place and identity : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2016 The pre-retirement cohort (45-65 years) that migrates within Aotearoa New Zealand remains largely ignored in social research. This cohort encompasses people experiencing an emergent mid-life life-stage characterized by increased fluidity between ...
Pennell, Stella Maria
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Shaping people-place bonds in citizen science: a framework for analysis
Ecology and SocietyHands-on, out-of-doors, environmental citizen and community science invites a wide range of publics to participate in data collection in the spaces and places local to them; that is, placed-based science.
Benjamin K. Haywood +3 more
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