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    Mohammad RadfarDepartment of architecvture,

    school of the built environment,northumbria university

    Ident itya manifestation of place-makinga conceptual framework for region and place identity

    HumanHabitation

    Conference

    r e g i o np l a c e

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    the paper brings forward

    Lack of appropriate concepts and analytical tools for theunderstanding and tackling of place and regional identity

    as a development resource

    An experience in conceptualising an analyticalframework for the study of place and regional identity

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    introduction

    (Re)affirmation of place & regional identity in the era of globalized economy and culture:

    strongly voiced by geographers and other socialscientists and has gained a strategic importance inregional and local development policies in the world

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    Social

    Spatial

    Symbolic

    Meaning /perception

    PLACEPhysical attributeActivities

    dimensions of place

    Place identity is inseparablefrom place

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    regional and place identity

    Regional identity : an unfixed mixture of individual andgroup loyalty and empathy for a region. It has a stronggeographical expression through a sense of place andbelonging, base on culture, language and history.

    Place identity : a combination of individual image andattachment to place, history, economic life andgeography, what distinguishes from other places.

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    ambiguity in terminology

    place attachmentplace- identity

    place identification

    very difficult to separatediversity of approaches (theoretical and empirical)so many similar termsdifferent disciplines use them differentlyeven within the same field defined differently

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    identity of a place is significantly different in nature fromthe place-identity of a person. The identity of a place is amore objective characteristic while the place-identity of a person is more subjective

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    places are an essential source of identity, S trong place-identity derives from places loaded with symbols,meaning and significances

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    place-identity is strongly related to power relations , andtherefore it can potentially be contested and changed byany power manipulations

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    Identity is the interpretation, narrative and outcome of people s communications with their environment.

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    Identity Social image Spatial imageP owermanipulationsusceptibility

    Factualcommon understanding &

    cultural involvement of people with their places

    Inhabitants (place-identity, my

    place )

    Insider (placeidentity= sent image )

    Low

    Idealassociated withlegitimising

    Outsider (regional-identity, theirregion )

    Outsider (regionalidentity= receivedimage )

    high

    C o n c e p

    t u a

    l i s a

    t i o n

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    C o n c e p

    t u a

    l i s a

    t i o n

    Regions are communicated and identified through theirlandscape, what distinguishes a regional image from others,are its spatial demarcations and natural symbols

    contours continuity complexity unity

    separate regions the extend of aregion

    unique naturalqualities andlandscapediversity

    all the commongrounds thatgives a regionsolidarity andentity

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    Often the cultural commonalities and histories betweenthe countries in this region have been underestimatedand overshadowed by their major ideological differencesand political conflicts

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    B andar Abbas

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    B andar Abbas

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    B andar Abbas

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    m oha mm ad.radfar@northu m bria.ac.ukRoo m 201, Wynne Jones centre

    School of the B uilt Environ m ent, Architecture Depart m entNorthu m bria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 8ST

    Thank you


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