What Have 40 Years of Place Attachment Research Taught Us?
The connections that people have to places are rich and multi-faceted. These connections are mediated by a multitude of factors such as social context (e.g., relations between neighbors) and physical infrastructure (e.g., high-rises vs. single-family homes), among others. The ways that people connect with places have been studied for over 40 years in disciplines as diverse as geography, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. This wide-ranging field of study of people-place connections is most referred to as “place attachment” or “sense of place” research.