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  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,791 Views
33 Pages

28 July 2025

This study conducts a systematic qualitative review of empirical research on sense of place within housing contexts, employing the tripartite model of place identity, place attachment, and place dependence. The study employs an expanded model that ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,494 Views
15 Pages

3 June 2020

Based on the premise that hiking in Israel is strongly related to constructs of sense of place and place attachment, this study analyzes the motivations and experiences of hikers along the Israel National Trail. To this end, it employs diverse method...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
14,086 Views
15 Pages

8 November 2022

Place-based planning has been applied in the past two decades, and it has started being incorporated into planning policy in the past decade in the Global North. On the other hand, bottom-up approaches applied in the Global South, for example, in inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,562 Views
21 Pages

Place Naming and Place Making: The Social Construction of Rural Landscape

  • Bernadett Csurgó,
  • Gergely Horzsa,
  • Márta Kiss,
  • Boldizsár Megyesi and
  • Zsolt Szabolcsi

1 August 2023

A social constructivist approach has been applied in our case study analysis in order to explore the sense of place and the perception of landscape of local inhabitants. Fieldwork was carried out in three rural Hungarian microregions selected on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,611 Views
16 Pages

How Good Is our Place—Implementation of the Place Standard Tool in North Macedonia

  • Dragan Gjorgjev,
  • Mirjana Dimovska,
  • George Morris,
  • John Howie,
  • Mirjana Borota Popovska and
  • Marija Topuzovska Latkovikj

This study describes the implementation, in North Macedonia, of a “tool”, initially devised in Scotland, to generate community and stakeholder discussion about the places in which they live and notably a place’s capacity to generate...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
6,891 Views
21 Pages

As academic literature has shown, there is a preference among older adults to experience old age independently, in their own homes, giving shape to what has been called ageing in place. This phenomenon links residence, life cycle, and the experience...

  • Article
  • Open Access
823 Views
21 Pages

12 November 2025

While place branding strategies are increasingly implemented in rural tourism, they are criticised for issues of exclusion and homogenisation. In response, attempts have been made to rejuvenate place branding by integrating the ideology of place-shap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,845 Views
18 Pages

27 August 2021

Recent scholarship on urban social sustainability has redirected its attention to the role of place-based theories and practices in achieving and sustaining social outcomes. The notion of place and its centrality in everyday life of urban citizens co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,358 Views
36 Pages

15 January 2025

Space and place are two of the main concepts in several fields of knowledge, such as human geography, environmental psychology, urban sociology, architecture, urban planning, and others. Space is an objective and structured concept. It is mainly a ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,952 Views
23 Pages

8 February 2024

After the Industrial Revolution, new technologies and architectural forms gradually replaced China’s wooden construction system, which had lasted for thousands of years. The architectural narrative also turned a new page. As pieces of architect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,641 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2025

This article explores a participatory and Geomedia-based approach to urban planning through the concept of place design. Place design as an approach emphasises the integration of collective knowledge, sociocultural values, and digital representation...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,341 Views
25 Pages

7 June 2025

Location-sensitive policies are tailored to the specific characteristics and needs of a place, supporting both local priorities and wider national objectives within a particular time frame. They are developed to deliver key strategic outcomes such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,186 Views
16 Pages

2 November 2025

This study addresses the limited integration of place-based education (PBE) into primary science learning, particularly regarding its potential to cultivate both cognitive understanding and emotional attachment to place—key dimensions of educat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,731 Views
17 Pages

26 August 2022

International students enrolled in the long term are considered habitual residents. They act as hosts to their friends and relatives, generating word-of-mouth recommendations and revisiting the host country. In order to facilitate inbound tourism in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
16,496 Views
26 Pages

Place versus Space: From Points, Lines and Polygons in GIS to Place-Based Representations Reflecting Language and Culture

  • Thomas Blaschke,
  • Helena Merschdorf,
  • Pablo Cabrera-Barona,
  • Song Gao,
  • Emmanuel Papadakis and
  • Anna Kovacs-Györi

Around the globe, Geographic Information Systems (GISs) are well established in the daily workflow of authorities, businesses and non-profit organisations. GIS can effectively handle spatial entities and offer sophisticated analysis and modelling fun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,613 Views
19 Pages

2 August 2018

Outdoor environment can have significant connections with place relationships. This study tried to explore the connection in detail. First, the relationship was examined through an integrated view of environmental planning, followed by reviewing impa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,186 Views
30 Pages

A Graph Database Model for Knowledge Extracted from Place Descriptions

  • Hao Chen,
  • Maria Vasardani,
  • Stephan Winter and
  • Martin Tomko

Everyday place descriptions provide a rich source of knowledge about places and their relative locations. This research proposes a place graph model for modelling this spatial, non-spatial, and contextual knowledge from place descriptions. The model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,501 Views
20 Pages

26 November 2020

Place branding has become a fast-growing area of research in recent years due to the proliferation of technology and services facilitating travel. However, place-branding research has primarily focused on place promotion and image orchestration. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,261 Views
27 Pages

What Do Local People Really Need from a Place? Defining Local Place Qualities with Assessment of Users’ Perceptions

  • Huiming Liu,
  • Bin Li,
  • Qing Liu,
  • Yifan Li,
  • Jing Zhao,
  • Xuechun Wang,
  • Chaoyi Cui and
  • Shaoting Zeng

China is facing a serious urban regeneration issue in which replicable international-style locations are losing their socio-cultural adaptability, especially in anonymous residential neighbourhoods. This study defines the key location qualities from...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,784 Views
9 Pages

Place Recognition: An Overview of Vision Perspective

  • Zhiqiang Zeng,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Xiaodong Wang,
  • Yuming Chen and
  • Chaoyang Zhu

15 November 2018

Place recognition is one of the most fundamental topics in the computer-vision and robotics communities, where the task is to accurately and efficiently recognize the location of a given query image. Despite years of knowledge accumulated in this fie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,577 Views
21 Pages

Place and City: Toward Urban Intelligence

  • Albert Acedo,
  • Marco Painho,
  • Sven Casteleyn and
  • Stéphane Roche

Place, as a concept, is subject to a lively, ongoing discussion involving different disciplines. However, most of these discussions approach the issue without a geographic perspective, which is the natural habitat of a place. This study contributes t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,395 Views
20 Pages

Road Congestion Detection Based on Trajectory Stay-Place Clustering

  • Qingying Yu,
  • Yonglong Luo,
  • Chuanming Chen and
  • Xiaoyao Zheng

The results of road congestion detection can be used for the rational planning of travel routes and as guidance for traffic management. The trajectory data of moving objects can record their positions at each moment and reflect their moving features....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,530 Views
21 Pages

22 May 2023

This study looks at the influence of place attachment on heritage discourse in contemporary places, specifically, Byzantine mosaics in Jordan, where the Byzantine Empire left behind a rich mosaic heritage. Today, these mosaics are replicated in conte...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
845 Views
26 Pages

Understanding how green spaces foster sense of place is critical for sustainable urban planning and human well-being, yet no comprehensive synthesis has integrated findings across the fragmented literature spanning multiple disciplines. This systemat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,059 Views
21 Pages

Sustainable Tourism Cities: Linking Idol Attachment to Sense of Place

  • Jiayu Zhou,
  • Yerin Yhee,
  • Eunmi Kim,
  • Jin-Young Kim and
  • Chulmo Koo

4 March 2021

With the development of the “Hallyu” (Korean Wave) and people’s deep understanding of South Korea, the phenomenon of “Hallyu” idols driving tourism has become very common. Tourists, especially fans are no longer satisfied with the traditional tourist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
569 Views
30 Pages

Humans typically describe spatial location using names, hierarchies, and relative positions (e.g., east of, inside), yet mainstream GIS represents places primarily through geometric coordinates, rendering qualitative spatial queries computationally c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,158 Views
16 Pages

Place Brand Co-Creation through Storytelling: Benefits, Risks and Preconditions

  • Ioana S. Stoica,
  • Mihalis Kavaratzis,
  • Christina Schwabenland and
  • Markus Haag

30 December 2021

Co-creation in place branding is used as an umbrella term for the complex brand meaning emerging through stakeholders’ participation in place activities, their contribution, collaborations and interchange of ideas and resources. Co-creation is often...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
18,953 Views
25 Pages

Although place-based investigations into human phenomena have been widely conducted in the social sciences over the last decades, this notion has only recently transgressed into Geographic Information Science (GIScience). Such a place-based GIS compr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
13,344 Views
23 Pages

9 September 2024

This study reviewed previous studies on place attachment and related factors in the urban setting. Assessments were conducted on over one hundred peer-reviewed journal papers that met the selection criteria. The results were divided into six categori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,941 Views
20 Pages

2 December 2022

Residents’ subjective well-being is closely related to their perception of specific attributes of the city they live in, such as physical appearance, entertainment facilities, and job opportunities. This study aims to examine the effect of plac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,350 Views
18 Pages

17 October 2019

In contrast to situations in most other countries, Indigenous land rights in Sweden are tied to a specific livelihood—reindeer husbandry. Consequently, Sami culture is intimately connected to it. Currently, Sami who are not involved in reindeer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,338 Views
21 Pages

Enhancing Place Attachment Through Developing Public Open Places: A Cross-Cultural Study in Gold Coast, Australia

  • Marzieh Ghasemieshkaftaki,
  • Karine Dupre,
  • Jennifer Campbell and
  • Ruwan Fernando

Urban studies research has increasingly focused on placemaking and place attachment in public open places. While several studies have explored how immigrants interact with these places, this study investigates how cultural differences affect immigran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
450 Views
9 Pages

2 December 2025

The Learning with Place© framework is a process for change, grounded in positioning local Place first. Generated from a decade-long post-qualitative inquiry—Learning with Place©—focused on pedagogy and practices, the framework c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,580 Views
11 Pages

Early Contractor Involvement in a Mandaean Place of Worship

  • Anoush Chohilli,
  • Mary Hardie and
  • Awais Piracha

27 March 2025

Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) can offer significant benefits for construction projects. However, ECI is scarcely discussed in relation to place-of-worship projects, particularly those of minority communities. The Mandaeans are an ethnoreligious...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,338 Views
18 Pages

Ageing in Place—The Key to Receiving a Superaged Society

  • Paulin Straughan,
  • Yi Wen Tan,
  • Zidane Tiew,
  • Zeyu Zheng,
  • Rachel Ngu and
  • Wei Tin Hiah

Ageing in place is the ability to remain in one’s community, where living conditions foster a sense of attachment that enhances holistic well-being. To facilitate this, both the built and social environments within which the home is nested must...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,103 Views
34 Pages

22 February 2024

Human existence and progress hinge on sustainability and resilience, especially in the Anthropocene Era, where the diversity of nature plays a critical role. Central to this endeavor is the realm of geoethics, which not only reshapes the role of geos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,761 Views
20 Pages

27 October 2021

The negative impacts of tourism development are increasing environmental problems related to the destruction of the global environment, calling on scholars and practitioners to look more at the relationship between people and place. In this concern,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,066 Views
20 Pages

Recent advances in knowledge graphs show great promise to link various data together to provide a semantic network. Place is an important part in the big picture of the knowledge graph since it serves as a powerful glue to link any data to its georef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,185 Views
22 Pages

Function-Based Search of Place Using Theoretical, Empirical and Probabilistic Patterns

  • Emmanuel Papadakis,
  • George Baryannis,
  • Andreas Petutschnig and
  • Thomas Blaschke

Searching for places rather than traditional keyword-based search represents significant challenges. The most prevalent method of addressing place-related queries is based on place names but has limited potential due to the vagueness of natural langu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,402 Views
20 Pages

How to Capture Place Identity Contents? A Tool for Planning Interventions

  • Fátima Bernardo,
  • Isabel Loupa-Ramos and
  • Rosa Coelho

1 November 2023

Research into place identity has mainly focused on its intensity rather than its contents. Place identity measurement is relatively mature, and the scales have been used in many literatures. However, the contents of place identity are rarely addresse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,036 Views
16 Pages

Eroding Land and Erasing Place: A Qualitative Study of Place Attachment, Risk Perception, and Coastal Land Loss in Southern Louisiana

  • Catherine E. Lambert,
  • Jason R. Holley,
  • Katherine A. McComas,
  • Natalie P. Snider and
  • Grace K. Tucker

1 June 2021

Southern Louisiana and its coastal bayous are sites of both frequent flooding and rapid coastal land loss, exacerbated by the increasing effects of climate change. Though much work has examined flood risk perceptions in coastal areas, few studies hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,198 Views
16 Pages

Geospatial Thinking and Sense of Place: The Mediating Role of Creativity

  • Jianzhen Zhang,
  • Ziyang Wang,
  • Collins Opoku Antwi,
  • Xiaoyu Liang and
  • Jiahao Ge

28 December 2022

An individual’s sense of place has a motivational impetus on how s/he relates to the place. Thus, environmentally sustainable behaviors are deemed as products of a person’s sense of place. However, little is known about the extent to whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,478 Views
24 Pages

2 September 2024

This article describes the place relationships adolescents have with natural elements in recently developed ‘vertical schools’ in Australia: a relatively new school typology in the country, generally considered to be over four storeys hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,701 Views
19 Pages

Impact of Odor Nuisance on Preferred Place of Residence

  • Magdalena Wojnarowska,
  • Mariusz Sołtysik,
  • Adam Sagan,
  • Jadwiga Stobiecka,
  • Jarosław Plichta and
  • Grażyna Plichta

15 April 2020

Context of the research: Research is increasingly carried out to take into account the social behavior of residents, the type of industry located in the area, and perceived preference for the place of residence. The quality of life in urban space is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
8,275 Views
16 Pages

Place Attachment and Environmentally Responsible Behavior: The Mediating Role of Destination Psychological Ownership

  • Hui-Ming Kuo,
  • Jung-Yao Su,
  • Cheng-Hua Wang,
  • Pinyapat Kiatsakared and
  • Kuan-Yu Chen

16 June 2021

This study aimed to explore the relationship between place attachment and environmentally responsible behavior, and to verify the mediating role of destination psychological ownership in the above relationship. We surveyed scuba divers in Taiwan as t...

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