The City and Self-Identity
1978/06/01 by Harold M. Proshansky · 1,397 citations
Health Professions · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Community Health and Development #Computer science #Cultural Differences and Values #Feeling #Identity (music) #Identity formation #Personal identity #Place Attachment and Urban Studies #Place identity #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Relation (database) #Self #Self-concept #Social psychology #Socialization #Unconscious mind
paper · doi:10.1177/0013916578102002
published in Environment and Behavior 10(2), 147-169 (SAGE Publishing)
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Abstract
It is suggested that for each of the role-related identities of an individual, there are physical dimensions and characteristics that help to define and are subsumed by that identity. In addition, there is a general place-identity for each individual which reflects his or her unique socialization in the physical world. This paper argues that it is important to conceptualize place-identity as a specific component (subidentity) of each individual's self-identity. Place-identity is defined as those dimensions of self that define the individual's personal identity in relation to the physical environment by means of a complex pattern of conscious and unconscious ideas, feelings, values, goals, preferences, skills, and behavioral tendencies relevant to a specific environment.
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