Building communities of place: Habitual movement around significant places

Hargreaves, Andrew

doi:10.1023/b:joho.0000017706.38123.43

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“…Through time and with structural processes, people give meaning to their experiences and the features around them become more significant. Hargreaves (2004) emphasises that movement can be either social through chance encounters, or habitual with regular routes and daily motives and necessities. A sense of belonging can be improved by the intersection of social movements and significance.…”

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In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax

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Heath

2015

J Hous and the Built Environ

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This research tackles the intermediate spaces between buildings and the street, by examining the definition and importance of spatial configuration in relation to urban morphology and social relations. It also analyses how the organisation of in-between space affects social interaction in different urban forms. To understand the complex relations and socio-spatial structure of the city, it is important to use mixed methods. This research utilises various methods to focus on three dissimilar urban morphologies in Izmir, Turkey. Two inner city quarters and one modern housing estate of middle-and high-income groups are compared using space syntax analysis and snapshot observations. These neighbourhoods are selected according to their syntax measures from more integrated to segregated neighbourhoods in the axial analysis. And for a detailed zoomed-in analysis, similar diameter areas are covered for observations. Subsequently, activity patterns are observed at different times of the day, one weekday and one Sunday in three cases. In each neighbourhood, syntactic measures of all selected streets are correlated with these recorded activities. This study reveals that connectivity of streets is important for supplying niches that trigger long-duration activities and social interaction. In modern estates, stationary activities are not correlated strong enough with movement as it is in inner city neighbourhoods. Additionally, in-between spaces increase the frequency of social interaction and co-presence of people particularly in more integrated areas. However, this is only one element in developing sense of community. Further research is needed especially in correlating space syntax with environmental issues, as well as people's behaviour.

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“…A sense of belonging can be improved by the intersection of social movements and significance. Greater social interaction between residents and existing features can be sustained via integration of the local attributes and the central facilities of the layout (Hargreaves 2004).…”

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In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax

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Heath

2015

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…These things meant more to them than future hazards and risk (Hargreaves, 2004;Pidgeon et al, 1992). The locals especially valued raising children in rural communities because of perceived social security and safety.…”

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People living under threat of volcanic hazard in southern Iceland: vulnerability and risk perception

Jóhannesdóttir

Gísladóttir

2010

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract.Residents in the village of Vík and in the farming community of Álftaver in southern Iceland are living with the threat of volcanic hazards. The highly active subglacial volcano Katla has erupted approximately twice per century since the beginning of settlement around 874 AD. The last major eruption was in 1918 and Katla has recently entered an agitated stage. The purpose of this research was to (1) review residents' responses in relation to vulnerability, (2) examine their risk perception, preparedness and mitigation in relation to an eruption of Katla, and (3) investigate the public and the representative of the local authorities and emergency manager's knowledge of the official evacuation plan. In 2004, we conducted in-depth, face-to-face interviews with local residents using a snowball sample technique. All participants were permanent residents of the two communities, between the ages of 25-95 and most had lived in the area their entire lives. Regardless of the residents' knowledge about past volcanic activity of Katla and the associated future risk, many residents were doubtful about the imminent eruption forecast by scientists and they believed that the volcano is no longer active. In both communities, different social, cultural and economic factors played a central role in how people perceived natural hazards and how they dealt with the fact that their lives and livelihoods could be at risk. The participants had good knowledge about the existing evacuation plan and had participated in evacuation exercises. However, they had not made personal mitigation or preparedness plans in the event of a future eruption. In contrast to the residents of Vík, the inhabitants in Álftaver are concerned about the evacuation process and found it very confusing; they neither found the emergency plan nor the proposed methods for risk communication relevant for their farming community. The perCorrespondence to: G. Jóhannesdóttir (gudrunj@rls.is) ception of the inhabitants, especially in Álftaver, does not correspond to those tasked with the responsibility of developing the emergency and evacuation plans. In order to ensure the safety of all concerned, better cooperation, mutual understanding and adequate communication between the scientific community, governmental and local authorities and the inhabitants is necessary.

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“…They noted that there are areas in the Muskegon watershed with similar attributes (with regard to independent variable values), but one place may be 'a no-nothing town' while another is held in high regard. The challenge in defining place is due to the fact that (1) both global and local processes shape places (Agnew, 1987;Cooke, 1989;Hanna & Walton-Roberts, 2004) and (2) place identity-or community-involves more than location (Hargreaves, 2004;Massey & Allen, 1984). Indeed, a space in an abstract sense only becomes a concrete place through social experience and action (Massey, 1995;Ortiz et al, 2004).…”

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Refining landscape change models through outlier analysis in the Muskegon watershed of Michigan

2006

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Balancing natural resource protection and urban development is of concern to researchers, planners and citizens who are aware of the environmental, social and economic impacts of urban land use. Land-use change models can assist in finding this balance. An objective of this research was to build a better model of land-use change by integrating quantitative and qualitative techniques. A modelling approach is presented that combines statistical logistic regression with field-based outlier analysis. To this end, a collaborative effort between researchers, who are adept at building models, and local experts, who better understand the dynamics of landscape change in their communities, was undertaken. The findings indicate that this modelling approach is successful in improving overall model performance, as measured by pseudo r-squared value, and identifying additional drivers of land-use change, namely zoning, soil suitability and distance to highway interchange. Most importantly, this collaborative modelling process, involving researchers and local planners, has practical utility for land-use decision making.

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Building communities of place: Habitual movement around significant places

Cited by 34 publications

References 7 publications

In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax

In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax

People living under threat of volcanic hazard in southern Iceland: vulnerability and risk perception

Refining landscape change models through outlier analysis in the Muskegon watershed of Michigan

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