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      Place Attachment and Sustainable Communities

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      Architecture_MPS
      UCL Press
      place attachment theory, Jordan, sustainable communities’ PPP framework, Harra initiative

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          Abstract

          As cities in the developing nations are becoming urbanised at an accelerated pace and intensity, urban planners, design practitioners and policymakers conjoin efforts to satisfy the emergent needs. The design and construction of a sustainable built environment offers adaptive amelioration to the risks of climate change, which ostensibly affects the global South more than the North. Therefore, for developing cities to become sustainably urbanised and planned, socio-economic factors in addition to environmentally devised technological innovations should be comprehensively conceived, to become more consciously assimilated in urban planning and design of residential neighbourhoods in the global South. One of these social factors is place attachment, which has been gaining traction in the last three decades due to the role it plays in understanding the implications of human–place bonding on predicting behaviours, which in turn prepares communities to become resilient and sustainable in the face of possible risks, ranging from climate change displacement to environmental depletion of resources, economic constraints and social tensions. This paper explores the link between place attachment and the creation of more sustainable communities that are civically engaged and environmentally conscientious. As the dynamics of place attachment differ from one context to another, the study employs qualitative methods to mine the place attachment values of several residents of a neighbourhood in Amman, the capital city of Jordan. Through semi-structured interviews with a representative section of the residential communities and photographic documentation, the study analyses the findings from affective and cognitive perspectives, and evaluates their contribution to achieving sustainability. Based on the findings, the research proposes an agenda for future research directions in place attachment studies, providing empirical insight from the context of Jordan.

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                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Role: Guest Editor
                Journal
                Archit_MPS
                Architecture_MPS
                UCL Press
                2050-9006
                26 March 2020
                : 17
                : 1
                : 3
                Affiliations
                Abu Dhabi University, Dubai
                PhD Student, Architecture Department, University of Cambridge, UK; mjr216@ 123456cam.ac.uk
                Article
                Archit_MPS-17-3
                10.14324/111.444.amps.2020v17i1.003
                48ff0e8c-d995-4814-b141-fa4ff58f078b
                © 2020, Maiss Razem.

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2020v17i1.003.

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                : 09 September 2018
                : 09 March 2019
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                Pages: 24
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                Razem, M. ‘Place Attachment and Sustainable Communities.’ Architecture_MPS 17, 1 (2020): 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2020v17i1.003.

                Sociology,Political science,Political & Social philosophy,Urban studies,Architecture,Communication & Media studies
                place attachment theory,Harra initiative,sustainable communities’ PPP framework,Jordan

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