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| THE RESEARCH ON THE CROWD IN URUMCHI INTERNATIONAL BAZAAR BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF PLACE ATTACHMENT——A Case Study of Uyghur College Students |
| Gulizha Bokeli1, XIN Zi-qiang2 |
1. Xinjiang Arts Institute, Urumchi 830001, China;
2. School of Social Development, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China |
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Abstract Along with globalization processes, place attachment has gained much attention and been widely applied into many areas, like human geography, sociology, anthropology, and environmental psychology. Place attachment is a positive affective bond between an individual and a specific place. The main characteristic of place attachment is the tendency of the individual to maintain closeness to such a place. Place attachment has two dimensions: place dependence and place identity. In the study, twenty-five Uyghur college students in Xinjiang were interviewed to find how they interact with Urumchi International Bazaar, explore how they form attachment to it and disclose how Urumchi International Bazaar influences their socialization and psychological development. The result indicates that Uyghur college students take part in activities in Urumchi International Bazaar to fulfill not only their material demands such as shopping, food and drinks, but also mental desires, which reflect on experiencing ethnic cultures and regulating emotions. This kind of functional attachment results in that they visit Urumchi International Bazaar again, which brought about the sense of belonging, happiness, these are positive emotions that formed to be emotional attachment, what we called place identity. Urumchi International Bazaar is the place of inheriting traditional culture and the symbol of Uyghur group culture. Urumchi International Bazaar as the social micro-environment has influence Uyghur college students on managing emotion efficiently and forming well self-identification for better adaptation. Based on these findings, we suggest that buildings' ethical feature should be retained in the urbanization process.
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Received: 26 March 2011
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2012, Vol. 27 
