TY - JFULL AU - Mina Najafi and Mustafa Kamal Bin Mohd Shariff PY - 2011/9/ TI - The Concept of Place and Sense of Place In Architectural Studies T2 - International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences SP - 1053 EP - 1060 VL - 5 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14034 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 56, 2011 N2 - Place is a where dimension formed by people-s relationship with physical settings, individual and group activities, and meanings. 'Place Attachment', 'Place Identity'and 'Sense of Place' are some concepts that could describe the quality of people-s relationships with a place. The concept of Sense of place is used in studying human-place bonding, attachment and place meaning. Sense of Place usually is defined as an overarching impression encompassing the general ways in which people feel about places, senses it, and assign concepts and values to it. Sense of place is highlighted in this article as one of the prevailing concepts among place-based researches. Considering dimensions of sense of place has always been beneficial for investigating public place attachment and pro-environmental attitudes towards these places. The creation or preservation of Sense of place is important in maintaining the quality of the environment as well as the integrity of human life within it. While many scholars argued that sense of place is a vague concept, this paper will summarize and analyze the existing seminal literature. Therefore, in this paper first the concept of Sense of place and its characteristics will be examined afterward the scales of Sense of place will be reviewed and the factors that contribute to form Sense of place will be evaluated and finally Place Attachment as an objective dimension for measuring the sense of place will be described. ER -