Abstract

Operationalizing Sense of Place and Social Capital in the City
Track: Research & Sciences
Authors: Albert Acedo, Marco Painho, Sven Casteleyn

The academic interest in social concepts in the city has been growing in the last decades. However, little attention has been paid to their spatial dimensions at the urban level, missing the chance to embed this knowledge into our city processes. This research examines the relationship between sense of place and social capital from a spatial point of view and explicitly formalizes the spatial relationship between them at the city level, promoting a citizen-centric, social-spatial view on a city