A ‘placeful’ station? The community role in place making and improving hedonic value at local railway stations
In recent years, railway stations have come to be seen as non-places within society, points of transit and nothing more. The role of the station in place making is disputed with stations seen as both creating and destroying a sense of place within a community. The authors' study is located within the railway stations of Scotland and explores how local communities have been empowered to reclaim, customise, and re-appropriate stations to simultaneously create a sense of place and better promote their community to the outside world. Drawing on ethnographic research the authors refute the notion that stations are somehow ‘placeless’. The authors show how through a process of legitimisation, a sense of ownership and appropriation of the station environment, communities are able to transform the station, improving hedonic value and recapturing a sense of place.
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- Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Alexander, Matthew
- Hamilton, Kathy
- Publication Date: 2015-12
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 65-77
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
- Volume: 82
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0965-8564
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Communities; Culture (Social sciences); Railroad stations
- Uncontrolled Terms: Ethnographic studies; Hedonics; Sense of place
- Geographic Terms: Scotland
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Society; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01584007
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Dec 23 2015 8:13AM