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  • Meaning
    Significant ideas that individuals associate with a location
  • Memories
    Significant experiences of a location that individuals remember
  • Built environment
    The design and configuration of roads, buildings, structures and spaces
  • Landmarks
    Buildings or structures with distinguishing characteristics that are easily recognised
  • Gathering places
    Spaces where people are able to congregate and interact
  • Media
    Range from entertainment to news media, including traditional media such as TV, and new media such as social media
  • Sense of place is developed when people associate meanings and memories with locations
  • It reflects the relationship people have with the places around them
  • A sense of place helps to build our identity, enabling us to understand ourselves and others better.
  • It is derived from our experiences with the natural and built environments, and interactions with others at these locations.
  • It is highly personal and subjective.
    • One location may hold different meanings for different people, depending on our needs, lifestyle and how we make sense of our experiences of places.
    • Locations in a neighbourhood may also hold special memories for a specific group of residents that they serve.
  • People acquire a sense of place in their neighbourhood through:
    • Repeated encounters with objects and people
    • Significant or memorable events at local landmarks and gathering places
  • Repeated encounters with objects and people helps us recall the character and features of places that we come across and create meanings and memories of them.
  • Landmarks are highly visible and easy for most people to remember. They may serve symbolic or historical purposes, may hold positive and/or negative memories. They may feature public symbols that reflect a community's response to a tragedy, serving as a place for people to preserve their memories of loved ones.
  • Our interactions with people at everyday places may result in us developing an attachment to these places, enabling us to feel a sense of belonging to our neighbourhoods. Places which may not be visually distinctive may be transformed into memorable places where people gather during community events.
  • Sense of place may be represented through different forms and types of media by individuals and organisations, which reflects people's ideas, memories and significance of the location.
  • An individual may express their personal sense of place in different forms such as texts, audio, graphics and still or moving images. This can then be shared with others through various media types such as print media, broadcast media and internet-based media.
  • Different emotions expressed in the media might enhance or contradict our sense of place.
  • Our sense of place shapes our identity, hence, we respond well to representations that agree with how we feel about places in our neighbourhood.
  • Such representations add new layers of meanings to these places by revealing interesting information about them, thus enhancing our sense of place.
  • However, we may respond defensively to media content that challenges our sense of place, causing us to dismiss these media content, perceiving them as distortions or untruths.
  • Influence
    Effect on people or objects, causing significant changes.
  • Cluster
    A number of similar objects that are located close to one another.
  • Non-random
    Not random; elements do not have an equal probability of occurrence.
  • Geometry
    Shape, spatial configuration or arrangement of objects.
  • Tendency
    An inclination towards a particular outcome
  • spatial associations
    tendency of a pair of services, events and objects to be located near each other.
  • Spatial associations suggest connections between services, events or objects. Understanding spatial associations in our neighbourhood enhances our everyday living.
  • nested area
    an area located within a larger area
  • synergies
    improved results when two/more people or organisations work together
  • spatial scales
    the extent of an area in which a phenomenon or process takes place
  • Scales can be at different hierarchies including global, regional, and local.
  • Knowing spatial scales helps us understand how events and processes at one spatial scale may affect people and nature at other spatial scales.
  • Examining phenomena and/or processes at different scales can provide us with different perspectives based on the spatial patterns and trends observed.
  • In Singapore, there are more than twenty towns that are spread across the island.
  • In each town, there is a town centre with a concentration of activities.• Each town centre may serve as the commercial and social hub for residents living in its neighbourhoods.• Some town centres may have integrated transport hubs where bus interchanges and train stations are near shopping malls.
  • The convenience of such town centres may attract visitors from other towns to visit, making it viable for large shopping malls to be located there. It may also attract businesses to locate their offices in these town centres, as they can take advantage of lower costs and reduce travelling time for their workers.
  • residential unit --> precinct --> neighborhood --> town
  • Precinct:
    • Between 400 and 800 residential units
    • Facilities are often within close proximity, serving residents' everyday needs.
    • However, some other facilities are spread throughout the precinct to meet the residents' needs.
  • Neighbourhood:
    Serves between 4,000 and 6,000 residents.
    Each neighbourhood comprises a few precincts.