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原文传递 Employing Nostalgia to Reuse Obsolete Open Public Spaces

题名：	Employing Nostalgia to Reuse Obsolete Open Public Spaces
正文语种：	eng
作者：	Haitham Abdulhussein Alshamari
关键词：	Mental image;Nostalgia;Obsolete open space;Reuse;Spatial memory
摘要：	Abstract Most of the activities and land use in a city represent a part of the human spatial experience. Over time, this connection between people and land use turns into a sentimental phenomenon called “longing for place,” or nostalgia. This phenomenon and its types (restorative and reflective) represent psychological, social, communicative, and spatial dimensions. This paper addresses the following problem: There is a decrease in city open public spaces that have positive memories and are dedicated to social activities in high-density population areas. The paper assumes: There is a possibility to employ nostalgia as an indicator to reuse the obsolete spaces. The main objective of this study is to find out the main activities that were preferred by elderly users of obsolete public open spaces and how these memories had mental images that affected their lives. It is an attempt to explain the relationship between nostalgia and a space’s performance, and to determine the impact of the older users who have positive memories to reuse their obsolete open spaces. This paper depended on descriptive and empirical approaches. Its conclusions are: Nostalgia mostly seeks to glorify and recall the positive spatial memory of the past. Its quality increases and decreases according to the level of the impression and performance that is stored in the users’ minds and beings. Naturally, the space’s performance has generated memories and mental images. Thus, whenever there was a longtime positive performance of a space, the nostalgia and its mental images were stronger. The spatial memories stay in the minds even if the space has passed from its original use and its life cycle of performance is finished. Therefore, nostalgia can employ restoratively or reflectively, or together as a mechanism to reuse the obsolete open public space.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	Journal of Urban Planning and Development
卷：	148
期：	4
页码：	1-10