Measuring Place Attachment, Identity, and Memory in Urban Spaces: Case of the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

Public spaces are essential for any city as they define place character; they are the meeting point for social and cultural actions. Place attachment is moulded by the tie between individuals and places. The research examines the historic streets, which are remainders of their period when the pedestrian flow was predominant and had exceptional qualities that supported social action. The changed settings nowadays might have changed people’s views and the investigation was made to question and check individual’s common memory and their sensitive ties to the historic streets. The four streets from the Walled City of Lahore were selected upon their significance of history and usage. The questionnaires were prepared and the fieldwork analysis was conducted face to face and selected streets were investigated in the terms of, place attachment, identity, and memory. The outcome proved that there is a promising feeling of attachment towards the selected streets and lacking qualities of a street can be improved if look closely at the worthy streets. The study addressed an important issue of marginalization and the results from the Shah-Almi street shows that their act will create the walled city streets to lose their identity as it is formed by its users.

Developing a conceptual framework for studying people-place relationship

“…SOP can be a vehicle for understanding people's attitudes toward their environment, which Place Attachment (PA) 2 themed: PI, PD [25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37]. PI, place memory [55]. continuous local interactions (socialization) and subjective perceptions of place utilities (evaluation) [56].…”

A Study on the Creation of Sense of Place in the Religious Commercial Ampel Corridors

“…The sample size of 200 in total at two corridor locations is appropriate when viewed at previous research [57], suggests that the proper sample size in research is between 30 and 500, also found in another previous study [58], with a similar theme, used 100 people as a sample then [59], Zahid and Misirlisoy with the title Measuring place attachment, identity, and memory in urban spaces: the case of the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan. A sample of 220 people was used for 4 street variants.…”

Pengalaman Indra dan Persepsi Manusia: Sebuah Kajian mengenai Sense of Place

“…Melalui indra, informasi yang diterima mengenai kondisi lingkungan tertentu akan diolah secara kognitif dan pada akhirnya membentuk respon (afeksi dan konasi) tertentu untuk dimaknai (Aprianto, 2017). Proses ini kemudian menghasilkan place values berupa identity (asosiasi tertentu terhadap masa lalu, budaya, dan apa pun yang memiliki makna kolektif), memory (perasaan yang distimulasi oleh pengalaman kognitif; interaksi emosional dengan tempat yang mengacu pada keterikatan akan tempat), dan attachment (keinginan untuk bertindak/beraktivitas sebagai hasil evaluasi fungsi atau kualitas suatu setting tempat) (Dameria et al, 2020) (Zahid & Misirlisoy, 2021). Berikut diagram yang menjelaskan posisi indra (sense) sebagai 'titik penting' antara place dan pemaknaan tempat (sense of place):…”

“…Gambar 1. Diagram Pemahaman Posisi Indra (Sense) sebagai Dasar Pemaknaan Tempat (Sumber: Diolah berdasarkan(Dameria et al, 2020);(Erfani, 2020);(Zahid & Misirlisoy, 2021)) …”