the purpose of current article is to study the effect of sense of place on creating the urban identity in new cities. in order to fulfill the mentioned purpose, the key concepts of research and the theories related to the issue were studied. according to it, in order to collect the data, library method and note taking tool were used. the studies indicated the presence of human in the environmen...

Using social dominance theory and structural balance theory to analyze the political and psychological perspectives of subordinated peoples, we argue that struggles between dominant and subordinated polities are embedded in layered power structures. In such contexts, it is important to examine publics’ political desires and interests in relation to their political elites’ positions or choices o...

introduction: research is one of the most important ways of information production. among different kinds of research, applicability of research findings and the added-value of the elicited information are of great importance. creativity, production of new technology, theory or method and problem solving are among the indices of information added-value. this study aimed to investigate the relat...

today, there are many concepts such as a sense of place and attachment to place presented in architecture and urban literature in the field of environmental studies. meanwhile, relationship between the two is not much explained. this study defines the concept of sense of place and attachment to place and the factors influencing them followed by providing a four- dimensional model derived from s...

one of the major aspects of quality of life is place-attachment which is affected by human-nature interactions. looking at such a critical issue in human settlements requires the study of the relationship between architecture and nature. it is a critical issue in the contemporary literature of built environment and is discussed in specific frameworks such as phenomenology and environmental psyc...

Immigrants always have difficulties in integrating into a local society, and sometimes these difficulties come from the fact that they are subconsciously regarded as someone from the outside. How they are represented in the main stream media could reflect people’s perceptions towards the ‘otherness’ of different social members. We analyzed the representation of 29 US immigrant groups in newspap...