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The Soul of Urban Neighborhoods and its Relation to the City Soul.
There seems to be a growing interest among planners in identifying and reinforcing features that differentiate their city from others. On a local level, it appears increasingly common that neighborhoods are described and branded based on their distinguishing features. It should therefore be interesting for planners and developers to understand what makes neighborhoods attractive and what distinguishes them from other neighborhoods in the city. ‘Neighborhood soul’ is used in this study to analyze neighborhoods’ distinctive features. It is defined as a set of physical, functional and emotional characteristics that influence the residents’ relation to their neighborhood as well as their perceptions of its distinctiveness. The overall aim of this study is to compare the residents’ perception of their city’s soul with the soul of their neighborhood, to identify potential similarities and differences between these two scales of place. This study utilizes data from a quantitative survey of 6,600 residents in four Swedish cities. Specifically, 1,300 respondents living in the city of Stockholm is used to analyze the strength of the city soul vis-à-vis the soul of neighborhoods. The results (from e.g. regression analyses) show that both the city’s and neighborhood’s soul are significantly related to the corresponding people-place relation and the physical/functional characteristics. In particular, the relative importance of the relation is observed for residents that were born in the city or moved there a long time ago. The neighborhood-specific analyses show that the Stockholm city districts differ in several respects. One contribution of this paper is the suggested conceptual model, which adds to the mainly psychological and sociological literature, in which few studies seem to be theory-driven. Furthermore, the paper pays considerable attention to the physical nature of places, which is another shortage in this literature. ; QC 20171004
The Soul of Urban Neighborhoods and its Relation to the City Soul.
There seems to be a growing interest among planners in identifying and reinforcing features that differentiate their city from others. On a local level, it appears increasingly common that neighborhoods are described and branded based on their distinguishing features. It should therefore be interesting for planners and developers to understand what makes neighborhoods attractive and what distinguishes them from other neighborhoods in the city. ‘Neighborhood soul’ is used in this study to analyze neighborhoods’ distinctive features. It is defined as a set of physical, functional and emotional characteristics that influence the residents’ relation to their neighborhood as well as their perceptions of its distinctiveness. The overall aim of this study is to compare the residents’ perception of their city’s soul with the soul of their neighborhood, to identify potential similarities and differences between these two scales of place. This study utilizes data from a quantitative survey of 6,600 residents in four Swedish cities. Specifically, 1,300 respondents living in the city of Stockholm is used to analyze the strength of the city soul vis-à-vis the soul of neighborhoods. The results (from e.g. regression analyses) show that both the city’s and neighborhood’s soul are significantly related to the corresponding people-place relation and the physical/functional characteristics. In particular, the relative importance of the relation is observed for residents that were born in the city or moved there a long time ago. The neighborhood-specific analyses show that the Stockholm city districts differ in several respects. One contribution of this paper is the suggested conceptual model, which adds to the mainly psychological and sociological literature, in which few studies seem to be theory-driven. Furthermore, the paper pays considerable attention to the physical nature of places, which is another shortage in this literature. ; QC 20171004
The Soul of Urban Neighborhoods and its Relation to the City Soul.
Wahlström, Marie (Autor:in)
Paper
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
710
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