What is it about?
I draw on the concept of place attachment to interpret this case’s significance for planning and preservation theory and practice. Place attachment conceptualises affective ties to both physical settings and the relationships and memories that such settings support. This study gives planners, policy makers and preservationists new evidence that attachment to land and community are important motivations for expanding historic preservation into concerns for community preservation.
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Why is it important?
Conventionally, historic preservation concerns itself primarily with built landscapes; this paper argues that individuals’ feelings and bonds to social settings can be used as engines for preservation.
Perspectives
This case study sends a signal to city builders and preservationists that attachment to place and community are important enough to justify expanding historic preservation to include preservation of social bonds and cohesion. While the age and significance of the built structure is an important driver of historic preservation, I argue that individuals’ psychological wellbeing and interpersonal bonds are equally valid motives for preservation.
Dr Khaled Alawadi
Masdar Institute Of science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: Place attachment as a motivation for community preservation: The demise of an old, bustling, Dubai community, Urban Studies, September 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0042098016664690.
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