Study On Sense Of Place Of Residents Under The Historic Urban Quarters Transformation

Sense of place is an important research content of human geography. It emphasizes that people’s subjective feeling for the place. The formation of residents’ sense of place is a long-term process. The main source of resident sense of place stems from contact of the local environment in daily life. Therefore, residents’ sense of place is the result of the interaction between residents and the historic urban quarters environment. Shangxiahang historic urban quarters has distinctive historical and cultural resources and stronger perception. However, as the government business shift the focus of the layout and the advancement of urbanization, Shangxiahang historic urban quarters gradually appears the characteristics of isolation closed and homogeneity. This paper will study the sense of place in three dimensions——place identity, place attachment and place dependence. And it will take historic urban quarters in Fuzhou Shangxiahang as an example. The results have shown that:First, sense of place of Shangxiahang residents in general is positive. Second, there exist differences between different social demographic characteristics and behavior characteristics of residents. Third, different residents perception level have different degree of sense of place; Fourth, the development of urbanization is not destroy placeness. On the contrary, it can lead to refactoring of place significance under the new era. Study on sense of place of historic urban quarters residents will provide some certain suggestions for excavating cultural connotation of historic urban quarters and fixed protection work of historic urban quarters. In addition, it will provide a certain discussed meaning for the future study of similar urban quarters.