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Building Social Cohesion Through Urban Design : = The Efficacy of Public Space Design to Promote Place Attachment and Social Connections Among Culturally Diverse Users Within Urban Parks.

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Title/Author:	Building Social Cohesion Through Urban Design :/
Reminder of title:	The Efficacy of Public Space Design to Promote Place Attachment and Social Connections Among Culturally Diverse Users Within Urban Parks.
Author:	Bhandari, Raaga.
Description:	1 online resource (209 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-06A.
Subject:	Public spaces. -
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ISBN:	9798381022322

Building Social Cohesion Through Urban Design : = The Efficacy of Public Space Design to Promote Place Attachment and Social Connections Among Culturally Diverse Users Within Urban Parks.
Bhandari, Raaga.

Building Social Cohesion Through Urban Design :The Efficacy of Public Space Design to Promote Place Attachment and Social Connections Among Culturally Diverse Users Within Urban Parks. - 1 online resource (209 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

As the urban population becomes increasingly multicultural, there is a growing need for public space designers to understand who is using the space and how these spaces can contribute to social life in the local community. Social cohesion recognizes public spaces as dynamic places that enables diverse user groups to establish a collective meaning by accumulating shared experiences over time (Cattell et al., 2006). Thus designers need to understand how public spaces are cultivating and supporting social cohesion at a neighborhood scale. Additionally, to initiate the conditions that foster social cohesion, culturally varied users need to develop a shared understanding of the public space. This is a challenge to accomplish; public spaces are often designed to cater to the dominant group while neglecting the needs of minority user groups. Consequently, is a growing demand for creating inclusive public spaces that foster a sense of belonging among diverse users.To address this knowledge gap, this dissertation provides empirical findings that explain how urban neighborhood parks can facilitate place attachment among culturally diverse park users. The research identifies the efforts of various public space stakeholders in creating inclusive urban parks that cater to the needs of multicultural users. Since urban neighborhood parks are vital community assets that promote cultural inclusivity, exploring place attachment within these settings contributed to understanding how social cohesion is fostered among culturally varied user groups. The central purpose of this four-article dissertation was to learn how varied park users use, experience, and behave in urban parks, and whether that leads to forming place bonds. A modified place attachment framework was applied to two case studies embedded in historically immigrant neighborhoods to investigate their role in providing opportunities for multicultural users to establish place meanings that promote place bonds.The first article organizes existing literature surrounding public space, urban design, and social cohesion. Particularly, it discusses the existing definitions, frameworks, and enabling criteria associated with social cohesion in the urban design discipline to understand how social cohesion is valued and integrated into urban design practice through public space design. The second article develops a survey instrument to investigate the degree of place attachment among culturally diverse park users. This survey protocol incorporates questions that yield both quantitative and qualitative data to determine the attitudes and subjective experiences of varied users associated with forming place bonds with park settings. The quantitative scales yield users' emotional responses to the park settings, whereas the qualitative measure recognizes and understands the social and cultural aspects that influence their connection to the park settings.The third article employs a qualitative case study research design to assess Chinatown Park and North End Parks in Boston, Massachusetts, in facilitating place attachment among multicultural park users. This study considered a modified place attachment framework involving the dimensions of place identity, place dependence, and social bonding to measure the place bonds of culturally varied users to urban park settings. The study findings helped identify the ability of urban park settings to support multicultural users in forming place bonds by enabling them to ascribe meanings to the parks that stem from fulfilling their emotional, functional, and social needs. Lastly, the fourth article reviews the perspectives of key stakeholders including designers, park facilitators, community leaders, and park users, to better understand how parks are being designed, experienced, and developed. The study findings informed strategies to enhance the process of park design while prioritizing equitable opportunities for the neighborhood population and further enabling stakeholders to develop shared goals to create inclusive park environments.This dissertation contributes to the understanding of how culturally varied park users achieve place bonds with the park settings, which is enabled by the ability of urban parks to fulfill their needs at both a personal level and group level, which involves fostering meaningful experiences that enhance their self-identity, satisfy their functional needs, and evoke membership to a group. To understand how social cohesion is fostered through urban parks, this study emphasized the place attachment dimension of social bonding, which recognizes key features and qualities of park settings that provide opportunities for multicultural users to mingle and interact with one another. This dissertation presents initial findings explaining the prominent role of an urban park in facilitating place attachment among culturally varied park users. It infers that the inability of the park to encourage meaningful experiences for users through emotional, functional, and social connections to the place can impede users from forming place bonds within the park settings.

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ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798381022322Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Consequently, is a growing demand for creating inclusive public spaces that foster a sense of belonging among diverse users.To address this knowledge gap, this dissertation provides empirical findings that explain how urban neighborhood parks can facilitate place attachment among culturally diverse park users. The research identifies the efforts of various public space stakeholders in creating inclusive urban parks that cater to the needs of multicultural users. Since urban neighborhood parks are vital community assets that promote cultural inclusivity, exploring place attachment within these settings contributed to understanding how social cohesion is fostered among culturally varied user groups. The central purpose of this four-article dissertation was to learn how varied park users use, experience, and behave in urban parks, and whether that leads to forming place bonds. A modified place attachment framework was applied to two case studies embedded in historically immigrant neighborhoods to investigate their role in providing opportunities for multicultural users to establish place meanings that promote place bonds.The first article organizes existing literature surrounding public space, urban design, and social cohesion. Particularly, it discusses the existing definitions, frameworks, and enabling criteria associated with social cohesion in the urban design discipline to understand how social cohesion is valued and integrated into urban design practice through public space design. The second article develops a survey instrument to investigate the degree of place attachment among culturally diverse park users. This survey protocol incorporates questions that yield both quantitative and qualitative data to determine the attitudes and subjective experiences of varied users associated with forming place bonds with park settings. The quantitative scales yield users' emotional responses to the park settings, whereas the qualitative measure recognizes and understands the social and cultural aspects that influence their connection to the park settings.The third article employs a qualitative case study research design to assess Chinatown Park and North End Parks in Boston, Massachusetts, in facilitating place attachment among multicultural park users. This study considered a modified place attachment framework involving the dimensions of place identity, place dependence, and social bonding to measure the place bonds of culturally varied users to urban park settings. The study findings helped identify the ability of urban park settings to support multicultural users in forming place bonds by enabling them to ascribe meanings to the parks that stem from fulfilling their emotional, functional, and social needs. Lastly, the fourth article reviews the perspectives of key stakeholders including designers, park facilitators, community leaders, and park users, to better understand how parks are being designed, experienced, and developed. The study findings informed strategies to enhance the process of park design while prioritizing equitable opportunities for the neighborhood population and further enabling stakeholders to develop shared goals to create inclusive park environments.This dissertation contributes to the understanding of how culturally varied park users achieve place bonds with the park settings, which is enabled by the ability of urban parks to fulfill their needs at both a personal level and group level, which involves fostering meaningful experiences that enhance their self-identity, satisfy their functional needs, and evoke membership to a group. To understand how social cohesion is fostered through urban parks, this study emphasized the place attachment dimension of social bonding, which recognizes key features and qualities of park settings that provide opportunities for multicultural users to mingle and interact with one another. This dissertation presents initial findings explaining the prominent role of an urban park in facilitating place attachment among culturally varied park users. It infers that the inability of the park to encourage meaningful experiences for users through emotional, functional, and social connections to the place can impede users from forming place bonds within the park settings.
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