Likewise, the association between 'family' and home is reflective of conservative belief systems and the desire to preserve traditional family values.
Mah (2009) further notes that there are several definitions regarding the concept of place attachment, in previous literature. However, most of these definitions center on an affective bond between an individual and landscape. Low (1992) describes a distinction between the cultural and psychological definitions of place attachment. Low states, "Place attachment is the symbolic relationship formed by people giving cultural share emotional/affective meanings to a particular space or piece of land that provides the basis for the individual's and group's understanding of and relation the environment" (p. 166). Mah uses this cultural definition of place attachment, and then relates it to the social and economic processes.
Mah (2009) found that in Walker, the community members were proud of their community's strength, as it had endured through socioeconomic decline. This was something the members would fight to preserve, battling to prevent their physical houses from being demolished when efforts to regenerate the community were made. These community members, however, were very aware of the social and economic deprivation their community was suffering from. They understood the social issues that were affecting them, including drug and alcohol abuse and crime. The residents faced dislocation from their homes, with the regeneration, and as such suffered from anxiety,...
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