:: Volume 15, Issue 42 (6-2016) ::
2016, 15(42): 313-326 Back to browse issues page
The definition of local territory: conceptual analysis with an emphasis on psycho-perceptual and conceptual models
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We are social beings and human societies throughout human history in the form of organizations and certain locations such as urban, rural and different ways of living has brought to fruition. One of the communities that existed from ancient times urbanization that has transformed the urban neighborhoods of cities over time in the structure, content and structure have been seen. The scope and limits of social space and urban neighborhoods in cities today have changed. The scope and limits of social space and urban neighborhoods in cities today have changed. Thus, perceptions and behaviors of different people to each local territory and its neighborhood (neighborhood community) is followed. Including approaches to redefine the territory of communities and strengthen a sense of place and sense of community perception of the residents of the neighborhood domains has been raised, how to define these territories based on subjective perception and behavior of their residents. This article discusses the anatomy of the territory of the neighborhoods in the city, first the effective components and common approaches in determining the scope of the neighborhood, is discussed. And the expression of different theories and research done in this field, we see that most studies rely on a range of official statistics that these limits, does not show actual locations. Analysis study documents the need to practice "internal analysis" was conducted. Thus, the content of the sources and documents, the recognition criteria, theoretical and philosophical ideas were analyzed and several results including multi-domain nature areas, differences in perceptions of people with a range of statistical follows Winning, ultimately providing a conceptual model based on objective and subjective factors, the range (the second layer of the atmosphere of the neighborhood) as the neighborhoods of the territory and to pay more attention in future research suggests.

Keywords: territory, territory, district, neighborhood subjective perception, spatial orientation.
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Accepted: 2016/03/12 | Published: 2016/03/12


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