地方感是人文地理学人文社会转向的一个重要研究领域,国外已经构建了比较完善的地方感框架,国内对地方感的研究也日益兴盛。论文在文献回顾的基础上,阐述了地方感的维度及层次划分,分析了地方感的形成机理及影响因素,总结了地方感的研究方法和研究对象,同时指出我国的地方感进一步研究在理论建构上应加强地方感的维度、尺度、层次和过程的类型化研究,学科视角上应将地方感引入管理学、社会学和心理学等相关学科,研究方法上应突出可视化的表达和混合方法,研究对象和案例地的选择上应进一步扩大研究案例和研究主体,在大量实证研究基础上构建中国特色的地方感研究理论与方法体系。

The sense of place is an important research area of humanistic social transformation in human geography. Now a sophisticated framework of sense of place has already been built abroad, and the study on subject is also increasingly more and more in China. This paper describes the dimensions and the level division of the sense of place on the basis of literature review. At the same time, it also analyzes the formation mechanism, influencing factors of the sense of place, summarizes it's research method and research object. The study found that the sense of place is a multi-dimensional concept, the dimensions become different from each other because of the regional object, perspective and research, and it can divide into different levels. The influence factors can be divided into personal, physical, social and environment factors, personal factors include gender, age, live or residence time, occupation, place of birth, nationality and level of education, etc; physical environmental factors mainly include the unique natural environment,history and culture, architecture and public space, etc; social environmental factors mainly include the social ties, social economic status, participation, welfare and health, religion, folk custom and government management, etc. The research method is more diversity, in addition to using the traditional methods such as questionnaire and depth interview, also used pictures, photography, cognitive map, ethnographic analysis, participant observation, group discussion and so on. The research object is more extensive, it can for residents, tourists, immigrants, women, recreation, the real estate owners of tourism, drivers, climbers, operators and other objects of sense of place are all involved. In addition, the paper points out that the further study of this issue in China should proceed from the following aspects.