Assessment of the Place Attachment of Residents to Residential Spaces in New Urban Fabric

Case Study: Jahad Township - Zahedan City

Abstract

Aim and Background: Lack of attachment to new townships and cities is a hidden problem that in the long run impels the feelings of anomie in the inhabitants of these environments, and the sense of attachment stimulates the city development and improves the living environment. The purpose of the research is to know the status of attachment among the citizens living inJihad Townshipand identify the effective factors on residents' attachment to their residential space.

Materials and Method: The present research is applied in terms of purpose and survey in terms of methodology. The research instrument is a researcher-built questionnaire whose validity was confirmed through face validity and its reliability coefficient was 0.78 usingCronbach's alpha test. . The statistical population of the study includedall residents of the Jihad Township. The sample size is 332, by whom the questionnaires were completed.

Results and Conclusion: The hypothesis test has shown that there is a significant and positive relationship between the duration of stay, social activities, quality of service, sense of security and emotional attachment with the level of residents' place attachment. Also, it was found that the average level of attachment to their living space was 5 <2.17> 1, which was lower than average.
Regression analysis of the four criteria of attachment to parks explains 77% of the variations of the dependent variable (residents' attachment). The results indicate that the quality of services variable has the highest impact, then social activities, sense of security and emotionalattachmentin the next priorities, have increasing influence on the place attachment of residents in the Jihad Township of Zhehadan.