The Notion of Place, Place Meaning and Identity in Urban Regeneration

Volume 16 : 2018

“…Place identity is defined as a component of personal and social identity, a "process by which, through interaction with places, people describe themselves regarding belonging to a specific place" (Bernardo & Palma-Oliveira, 2016). A place plays vital role in developing and maintaining self-identity and group identity of the people as its experiential process forms the identity and distinctive place character (Ujang & Zakariya, 2015). A place must have its identity as meaning to create a sense of attachment (Ujang, 2012).…”

“…At some point in time, the existing urban marketplaces will eventually be renovated or redeveloped in the course of the city growth. Recent development through urban regeneration has transformed places into new setting thus changing the meaning and identity of the area (Ujang & Zakariya, 2015).…”

Riverine Culture in Urban Context: Spatial ethnographic of urban floating kampung in Tumok Manggis, Sambas City, West Kalimantan

“…On the contrary, they have to deal with the government's plan to remove all of the houses that have been considered as slums, without regards to the lantings' historical values that contribute to the development and the shaping of modern Sambas City. As stated by Ujang and Zakariya (2015), "urban regeneration within traditional settings has transformed places and constructed meanings embedded in the existing social and cultural settings. Thus, the social and emotional meanings, attached to or evoked by the elements of the urban environment were at least as important, often more so than the structural and the physical aspects of people imagery".…”

“…Thus, the social and emotional meanings, attached to or evoked by the elements of the urban environment were at least as important, often more so than the structural and the physical aspects of people imagery". (Ujang & Zakariya, 2015). While over three to four hundred units were maintained in the past, now there are only about thirty units remained.…”

Traditional Streetscape Adaptability: Urban gentrification and endurance of business

“…Poor and working class people are forced to move from the spaces and places in which they have legitimate socially and historically (Loretta, L et al, 2010). The people displacement also result in correlation to the weakening of place attachment (Ujang & Zakariya, 2015, Shabak, et al, 2015, cultural significance (Bakri, et al 2015), urban continuity and authenticity (Ginting & Wahid, 2015). The third impact is social changes.…”