More meaningful, more restorative? Linking local landscape characteristics and place attachment to restorative perceptions of urban park visitors

Liu, Qunyue; Wu, Yu; Xiao, Yiheng; Fu, Weicong; Zhuo, Zhixiong; Bosch, Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den; Huang, Qitang; Lan, Siren

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103763

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“…Green spaces at the center of neighborhoods are a subcategory of restorative environments that can improve residents' moods and reduce their stress [77]. The results of the questionnaire used in this study confirm the same.…”

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The Impact of Local Green Spaces of Historically and Culturally Valuable Residential Areas on Place Attachment

Hosseini

Sajadzadeh

Aram

et al. 2021

Land

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Environmental qualities significantly affect the behaviors and place attachment of users, especially in residential areas. In addition to creating environmental comfort, local green spaces can increase users’ place attachment, improve their mood, enhance friendly company and facilitate social interactions. The study sought to investigate the impact of local green spaces in the historically and culturally valuable residential fabric of Hamadan City in Iran on increasing residents’ social attachment. Derived from the literature on the subject, the conceptual model of the study shows the impact of such factors as social, functional, emotional and spatial bonds on place attachment in the residential context. A total number of 410 residents in the old neighborhoods of Hamadan City were selected by random sampling with a balanced proportion of gender and residence duration in the selected area. The designed questionnaire was distributed among the sample population and the collected data were analyzed using the structural equation modeling method. Then, the t-test and bootstrapping in Smart PLS software were used for testing the research hypotheses and evaluating the significance of the relationships between the research variables in the structural model. The results indicated that among the four types of bonds examined in relation to place attachment, emotional bonds, functional bonds, social bonds and spatial bonds, respectively, had a direct and significant impact on place attachment from the viewpoint of residents. The stronger the sociocultural bonds in historically and culturally valuable residential areas, the more prominent the role of local green spaces in place attachment based on residence duration becomes.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

The Impact of Local Green Spaces of Historically and Culturally Valuable Residential Areas on Place Attachment

Hosseini

Sajadzadeh

Aram

et al. 2021

Land

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“…E. Kuo et al, 1998;Peschardt & Stigsdotter, 2013). Moreover, local landscape characteristics (e.g., certain tree species) are associated with both restoration and place identity (Liu et al, 2020). In ART and SRT higher-level processed characteristics, such as water or paths, are assumed important preference and restoration (Kaplan, 1995;Ulrich, 1983).…”

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Seeing nature from low to high levels: Mechanisms underlying the restorative effects of viewing nature images

Menzel¹,

Reese²

2021

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Nature can benefit human well-being and cognitive function. Merely watching images of nature compared to urban scenes, which differ in many lower-level processed properties, can have such effects, suggesting that solely the visual input evokes them. In the current series of studies with well-controlled stimuli, we investigated the role of lower- and higher-level processing on restorative effects evoked by nature and urban environments. Therefore, we used not only nature and urban photographs but also 1) versions that lack spatial information but retain certain image properties including those on regularity (i.e., phase-scrambled images), 2) line drawings that contain spatial information and thus allow for higher-level processing while lacking many diagnostic lower-level processed properties, and 3) words that lack any diagnostic image properties but allow higher cognitive processing and provide a mental image of the environment. We examined restorative effects after participants viewed either original, phase-scrambled, or line drawing versions of nature and urban images (Study 1), or nature- and urban-related words (Study 2). Although nature and urban scenes differed in several image properties, their differences did not lead to differences in perceived restoration when presented with phase-scrambled images. However, higher-level processing (i.e., recognizing the presented environment) led to pronounced restoration effects for nature compared to urban stimuli (original images, line drawings, and words). These findings have implications for current theories in the field (i.e., perceptual fluency account, attention restoration theory, and stress recovery theory).

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“…Thus, the verification of hypotheses is shown in Table 7: Tourists' ERP of destinations exerts a very significant positive impact on place attachment, and relevant research has proven that ERP can result in recognition of place attachment [17,[50][51][52]. The result is different from the previous studies that verified the effect of place attachment on restorative perception [69,70]. Tourists of wellness tourism hope to pursue wellness of the body, mind, and spirit and increase their sense of happiness [4], showing that health benefits are vital to tourists.…”

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confidence: 86%

The Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture: The Role of Wellness Tourism and Environmental Restorative Perception

Xue

Shen

2022

Agriculture

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This study explored the impact of environmental restorative perception (ERP) on loyalty through place attachment and healthy image within organic agriculture. The visitors to organic agritourism in Hualien County and Taitung of Taiwan were taken as samples and 410 valid questionnaires were collected. LISREL 8.52 and regression analysis were adopted to explore the relationship among different variables. It was found that ERP is helpful for raising place attachment, healthy image, and loyalty to tourist destinations, and the non-toxic and organic sustainable environment created in organic agritourism has a restorative perception that can be used to attract tourists improving their health through travels, contributing to the transition of rural tourism to wellness tourism.

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More meaningful, more restorative? Linking local landscape characteristics and place attachment to restorative perceptions of urban park visitors

Cited by 82 publications

References 47 publications

The Impact of Local Green Spaces of Historically and Culturally Valuable Residential Areas on Place Attachment

The Impact of Local Green Spaces of Historically and Culturally Valuable Residential Areas on Place Attachment

Seeing nature from low to high levels: Mechanisms underlying the restorative effects of viewing nature images

The Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture: The Role of Wellness Tourism and Environmental Restorative Perception

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