تحقيقات جغرافيايی (Apr 2019)
Determining the Place Dignity Model and Studying Its Various Dimensions
Abstract
Aims & Backgrounds: People interact with different places of a city as an environment that responds to their needs and activities, and at a higher level, people define a part of their dignity in relation to these places and place attachment occurs. The phrase "place dignity" is considered as one of the dimensions of people and place relationship which is less considered by architects, designers and planners. In this regard, explaining the concept of place dignity and the process of forming the people-place interaction and the effective factors for creating, strengthening and valuing these links, is a basic step in achieving the main objective of explaining the place dignity criteria. The aim of the research was to explain the place dignity model and studying its various dimensions. Methodology: In this qualitative study the related Persian and English articles were investigated using fundamental conceptualization theory through inductive method and the concepts were determined using three types of open, axial, and selective coding. Findings: 428 codes were identified as the indicators of dignity creating which include of 150 concepts and 14 category (comfort/well-being and security/ relaxation; favorable landscape; social interactions; regularity; vitality; identity and originality; readability; memorability; sense of belonging; access; meaning and content; citizen activity and management; diversity; place dignity and personality). Conclusion: The strategies for promoting the place dignity are the factors of strengthening the institutional form of place, development of the explained perspectives for the future of the place, commitment to preserving the values of the environment and artificial elements, establishing the spatial position of the place in the system of meta place, comprehensive readiness, values and characteristics of the demands of residents and people outside the place, preserving the valuable elements, upgrading place role in meta place area, deploying infrastructure in place, historical evolution, growth and future of the place, recognition of elements of the place perceptual index, correction of behavioral platform, preparing the backgrounds for establishment of social behavior and communication between individuals, strengthening the spatial-physical structure of the place.
