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| EXPLORATION OF APPLYING PLACE THEORY TO URBAN-BASED LEISURE STUDY |
| HAN Guang-ming, HUANG An-min |
| College of Tourism, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China |
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Abstract Place Theory thinks that the emotional connection between human beings and the earth makes place a meaningful space. With the rapid growth of domestic city residents' leisure demand and activities, cities for leisure has become the trend of the development of modern city, and scholars pay more and more attention on the research on urban-based leisure. However, exploration of the relationship between leisure subject (people who take urban-based leisure activities) and city as "people and place" is still in the initial stage with theory, empirical research results in a less. Place, is a space full of meaning, a city developing for leisure is such a meaningful "place". The perception, experience, cognition and attitude of residents and visitors towards cities are the "software" consisted of urban-based leisure activities. These four aspects should be considered and analyzed in evaluating the leisure function of a city, the possibility of truly meeting residents and visitors' leisure demands and the future of becoming a real "leisure city". Place Theory, especially in humanism and phenomenological philosophy foundation, emphasizes on the subjective feeling of the place. Therefore, the place theory is helpful for making up insufficient consideration of subjective feeling in traditional sociology field by using it in the social analysis of space, and it should be the tools and objects in space research of urban-based leisure in social analysis. Based on related researches home and abroad and the research methodology of micro-cognitive theory of humanism, taking the views of Place Theory, this article firstly explains the relationship between urban-based leisure activities and place identity, place meaning and the sense of place attachment,puts forward the model and brief examples of place attachment in urban-based leisure, and then analyses the application of place theory in the necessity of the research on urban-based leisure. It also discusses the relationship of residents and visitors towards urban-based leisure activities cognition and place attachment, and finally constructs urban-based leisure activities index system which is based on Place Theory. It aims at providing related research in the field of leisure with an elementary theoretical framework.
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Received: 29 December 2011
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2013, Vol. 28 
