The relationship between attachment to places and environmental images of "Homes" among professionals : a study using environmental autobiography

Abstract

Most of us feel comfortable in some places or we attached to some places rather than others. Perhaps one of the simplest ways to define this spatial ship we can state it as "attachment to place". Therefore attachment to place is a function of time and experiencing of a place is always a relative experience. Hence geographical view and architectural view of a place is somewhat different from each other. During the past years there has been a great deal of researches which should help people to over come the difficulties they have previously encountered in their efforts to understand the attachment to place. They have identified that is a truly functional place attachment, which will meet physiological, social and psychological needs. Therefore the previous phenomenon is identified by various aspects in different ways.