| Title |
A Type Classification of Representative Places' Sense of Place in Seoul through the Adjective Indexs for Measuring the Sense of Place |
| Keywords |
장소성 ; 장소성 유형 분류 ; 장소성형용사 ; 다차원척도분석 ; 군집분석 Sense of Place ; Classification of the Sense of Place ; Adjective of the Sense of Place ; Multi-dimensional Scale Analysis ; Cluster Analysis |
| Abstract |
Recently, the paradigm of urban development has concentrated attention upon placemaking that vitalizes human social and cultural interactions in a place. Accordingly, citizen's evaluation is dealt with an important factor in placemaking. For this reason, there have been many lively discussions about theories of environmental planning and design considered a human-being in a place, such as the sense of place. However the urban places are still unified continuously because of the antiquated planning and design methods considered only the efficient and quantitative planning guidelines. So, this article aims at finding the types of representative places? sense of place in Seoul to be able to understand the meaning and characteristic of place for preventing the monotonous place. In order to determine the types of sense of place, citizen's quantitative image evaluations were conducted. The results indicate that the forty-one representative places in Seoul are classified into nine types of sense of place, and then the types are named by considering their physical landscape and sociocultural characteristic; 'symbolic', 'naturality', 'sense of culture', 'fashionableness', 'dailiness', 'sense of extraordinary', 'diversity', 'historicity' and 'modernity'. The results are possibly useful base data to suggest the future direction of placemaking in order to create the place's characteristic, legibility and diversity in Seoul. |