Historic preservation, significance, and age value: A comparative phenomenology of historic Charleston and the nearby new-urbanist community of I'On

Wells, John D.; Baldwin, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.06.002

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“…Environmental psychologists emphasize understanding how individuals respond to complex everyday settings and scenes. Work in the phenomenological tradition continues (e.g., Graumann 2002, Wells & Baldwin 2012. The ecological approach, which stresses that a complete understanding of perception must include its embeddedness in a sociocultural and historical web, remains an important perspective (e.g., Heft 2012).…”

Section: Environmental Perception and Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Psychology Matters

Gifford

2014

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

685

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Environmental psychology examines transactions between individuals and their built and natural environments. This includes investigating behaviors that inhibit or foster sustainable, climate-healthy, and nature-enhancing choices, the antecedents and correlates of those behaviors, and interventions to increase proenvironmental behavior. It also includes transactions in which nature provides restoration or inflicts stress, and transactions that are more mutual, such as the development of place attachment and identity and the impacts on and from important physical settings such as home, workplaces, schools, and public spaces. As people spend more time in virtual environments, online transactions are coming under increasing research attention. Every aspect of human existence occurs in one environment or another, and the transactions with and within them have important consequences both for people and their natural and built worlds. Environmental psychology matters.

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Section: Environmental Perception and Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Psychology Matters

Gifford

2014

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

685

341

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“…In my earlier research (Wells & Baldwin, 2012;Wells 2017), I established that people who live in an historic neighborhood (and thus have self-selected this environment over others in which to live) experience a higher degree of emotional attachment to this kind neighborhood versus people who live in a new neighborhood with the same overall urban design, but which lacks any obvious signs of physical age, such as decay or patina. Further, I was able to establish a correlation between the appearance of patina in the old neighborhood and the propensity of people to experience spontaneous fantasies about the past, which helped to emotionally bond them with the place.…”

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Probing the Person-Patina Relationship: A Correlational Study on the Psychology of Senescent Environments

Wells

2020

Collabra: Psychology

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There is a lack of research on people's psychological perceptions to decay or patina that is part of the historic environment. Built heritage conservation doctrine and law are based on the assumption that all people have a similar, positive aesthetic perception to patina in the built environment, although there are very few empirical studies that have attempted to confirm or challenge this assumption. This study is based on the statistical analysis of survey data from 864 people in the United States who ranked 24 images of old, decayed building materials and 7 control images of new building materials based on aesthetic qualities, condition, and perceived age. The results indicate that people do not like decayed earthen building materials, concrete, or ferrous metals and have a neutral opinion of the aesthetic qualities of aged brick, preferring new brick as well as aged wood. While there are small differences based on race, ethnicity, and gender, the largest difference in responses is between people who work in the historic preservation/CRM field and those who do not. This finding appears to indicate that people who work in these fields have a different psychological response to decay/patina in the built environment than laypeople, which has important ramifications in terms of decision-making processes regarding interventions in the older built environment.

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“…Such reactions are often encapsulated in the concept of "place attachment" and research has established that in areas of stronger place attachment people have increased perceptions of mental health and well-being [36]. One proposition is that historic environments induce greater feelings of place attachment through a process called "spontaneous fantasies", or an ability of pattern to spontaneously create vignettes of the past in people's mind, moreover this line of research emphasises that it is the overall historical landscape that is important not just individual historic buildings [37].…”

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National Park City: Salutogenic City?

Townshend

Roe

Davies

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WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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In 2017 the London Mayor's Office launched plans to make London the world's first National Park City, one of the greenest cities on earth. What appears to be allied to the long standing "All London Green Grid" includes plans to increase physical greenspace for exercise, socialisation and relaxation, as well as reduce waste and tackle issues like air pollution. In parallel an initiative to exploit National Parks for national health has also been launched in England. Thus far the discourse about these two initiatives has been separate. Moreover, while the hype around them sounds enticing, there is little robust information on how they will be realised, nor what substantive benefits may be delivered. This paper takes a step back. In particular it explores the foundations on which National Park Cities might be built -including examining another contemporary and pertinent concept, that of National Urban Parks i.e. combining well-established concepts of National Parks, yet within urban settings. It will question what health and well-being benefits might accrue to any future Urban National Park, as well as exploring what might be the best basis on which cities might be selected for this accolade and by whom. Based on these explorations it will further seek to answer whether or not National/Urban Park Cities will bring closer the realisation of the salutogenic city concept.

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Historic preservation, significance, and age value: A comparative phenomenology of historic Charleston and the nearby new-urbanist community of I'On

Cited by 39 publications

References 23 publications

Environmental Psychology Matters

Environmental Psychology Matters

Probing the Person-Patina Relationship: A Correlational Study on the Psychology of Senescent Environments

National Park City: Salutogenic City?

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