Sense of Place

Sense of place has long been used to explain the relationships between humans and places. Sense of place refers to various socio-cultural, emotional, and psychological meanings, values, and feelings humans may attribute to places, individually and as a community. Sense of place as an overarching concept that explains human–place relations arguably include the other place-based constructs of place attachment, place identity, place satisfaction, and place dependence. Sense of place is a dynamic concept that varies in time and space. Individuals may develop different senses of place at different stages of their lives and in various socio-cultural settings. Although the investigations and applications of sense of place are wide and interdisciplinary, environmental and social psychologists and human geographers have shown more interest in this concept as a topic of research and practice or a matter of concern.