Sluis, Chantal van der (2021) The influence of the daily live context on the Sense of Place in a neighbourhood. Master thesis.
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Abstract
The newly merged municipality Midden-Groningen is setting out to tackle the quality of life and welfare problems in the region. A region that on average has more poverty, more unemployment, lower life expectancy and fewer opportunities. This study aims to make a start with the well-being, by focussing on the relationship between the inhabitants and their neighbourhood, because people’s relationship to their living environment has an important role in their well-being. This research specifically looks into the influence of the daily life context on this relationship between inhabitants and their living environment, the so-called Sense of Place. To get data on the relation and daily life context, a survey was distributed among inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Noorderpark. A door-to-door approach was taken to increase response among the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The data was collected and analysed in SPSS with several tests such as ANOVA, and T-tests. The results showed that only a relatively small group of the respondents feels a (strong) attachment to their neighbourhood. Additionally, the results show differences in Sense of Place, for groups that are higher educated, older groups, and people with a higher income. The neighbourhood of Noorderpark seems to not sufficiently provide activities or possibilities for inhabitants to do what they like in the neighbourhood. These results suggest that looking into the Sense of Place of inhabitants in a particular place will give some insight into what is lacking in that place. By continuing to look into the relationship between inhabitants and the neighbourhood, the municipality can find bottlenecks and obstacles in that relation. Solving those will create a more liveable neighbourhood, which will influence the well-being concurrently.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Cultural Geography |
| Supervisor: | Bock, B.B. |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2021 09:08 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2021 09:08 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3686 |
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