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September 4 - 6
October 9 - 11
November 18 - 20
2025 January 13 - 14

Policy document -to be read and followed by all admitted students

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The course evaluation is open between 2025-01-12 and 2025-02-02

Additional course evaluations for MP0001

Academic year 2023/2024

Place, Activity and Human Development (MP0001-10215)

2023-08-28 - 2024-01-14

Academic year 2022/2023

Place, Activity and Human Development (MP0001-10014)

2022-08-29 - 2023-01-15

Academic year 2021/2022

Place, Activity and Human Development (MP0001-10290)

2021-08-30 - 2022-01-16

Academic year 2020/2021

Place, Activity and Human Development (MP0001-10183)

2020-08-31 - 2021-01-17

Course Literature - Place, Activity, and Human Development(MP0001)

The articles are presented in the order we recommend you read the papers:

**Module one – Understanding People-Place Relations: Key concepts and theories **

• Scannell, L., & Gifford, R. (2013). The Psychology of Place Attachment. In R. Gifford (Ed.), Environmental Psychology: Principles and Practice (Fifth edition ed., pp. 272-295).Victoria: Optimal Books.
• Seamon, D. (2013). Place attachment and phenomenology: The synergistic dynamism of place. In Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods, and Applications (pp. 11-22): Taylor and Francis.
• Scannell, L., & Gifford, R. (2010). Defining place attachment: A tripartite organizing framework. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30(1), 1-10. doi:
• Joye, J., & van den Berg, A. (2019). Restorative environments. In Steg, L. & de Groot, J.I.M. (eds). Environmental psychology: An introduction (2nd ed). Chichester: Wiley.
• Bell, P. A., Greene, T., C., Fischer, J., & Baum, A. (2001). Personal space and territoriality Environmental psychology (pp. 252-332). Orlando: HarcourtCollage Publisher.
• Uzzell, D., & Horne, N. (2006). The influence of biological sex, sexuality and gender role on interpersonal distance. The British journal of social psychology, 45(Pt 3), 579–597. https://doi.org/10.1348/014466605X5838
• Roe, J., & McCay, L. (2021). Restorative Cities: Urban design for mental health and wellbeing. Bloomsbury Publishing.
  - Chapter 1: Introduction to restorative urbanism
  - Chapter 4: The sensory city
• Kitchin, R. M. (1994). Cognitive maps: What are they and why study them? Journal of Environmental Psychology, 14(1), 1-19.doi:10.1016/S0272- 4944(05)80194-X

• Cross, J. E. (2015). Processes of place attachment: An interactional framework. Symbolic interaction, 38(4), 493-520.
• Judith Sixsmith (1986). The meaning of home: An exploratory study of environmental experience. , 6(4), 281–298. doi:10.1016/s0272-4944(86)80002-0
• Lewicka, M. (2013). In search of roots: Memory as enabler of place attachment. In L. C. Manzo & P. Devine-Wright (Eds.), Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methodsand Applications (pp. 49-60). London: Routledge.
• Morgan, P. (2010). Towards a developmental theory of place attachment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30(1), 11-22.
• Carly M. Thornock, Larry J. Nelson, Chris L. Porter, Cortney A. Evans-Stout, There's no place like home: The associations between residential attributes and family functioning, Journal of Environmental Psychology,Volume 64, 2019, Pages 39-47, ISSN 0272-4944, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.04.011.
• Roe, J., & McCay, L. (2021). Restorative Cities: Urban design for mental health and wellbeing. Bloomsbury Publishing.
  - Chapter 6: The active city
  - Chapter 8: the inclusive city
• Raymond CM, Kyttä M, Stedman R. (2017) Sense of Place, Fast and Slow: The Potential Contributions of Affordance Theory to Sense of Place. Front Psychol. 2017 Sep 29;8:1674. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01674. PMID: 29033871; PMCID: PMC5627138.
• Manzo, L. C., & Perkins, D. D. (2006). Finding common ground: The importance of place attachment to community participation and planning. Journal of planning literature, 20(4), 335-350.

Module II – part B - Disruption in place relations: place disruption, challenges and renegotiation of bonds

• Devine‐Wright, P. (2009). Rethinking NIMBYism: The role of place attachment and place identity in explaining place‐protective action. Journal of community & applied social psychology, 19(6), 426-441.
• Di Masso, A., Williams, D. R., Raymond, C. M., Buchecker, M., Degenhardt, B., Devine-Wright, P., ... & Von Wirth, T. (2019). Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world. Journal of environmental psychology, 61, 125-133.
• Chawla, L. (2020). Childhood nature connection and constructive hope: A review of research on connecting with nature and coping with environmental loss. People and Nature, 2(3), 619-642. doi:
• Manzo, L. C. (2013). Exploring the shadow side: Place attachment in the context of stigma, displacement, and social housing. In L. C. Manzo & P. Devine-Wright (Eds.), Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (pp. 178-190): London:Routledge.
• Nanninga, C. S., Meijering, L., Schönherr, M. C., Postema, K., & Lettinga, A. T. (2015). Place attachment in stroke rehabilitation: A transdisciplinary encounter between cultural geography, environmental psychology and rehabilitation medicine. Disability and Rehabilitation, 37(13), 1125- 1134. doi:10.3109/09638288.2014.955136
• Thompson Fullilove, M. (2013). “The Frayed Knot”. What Happens to Place Attachment in the Context of Serial Forced Displacement? In L. C. Manzo & P. Devine-Wright (Eds.),Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (pp. 141-153). London: Routledge.
• Brown, G., Raymond, C. M., & Corcoran, J. (2015). Mapping and measuring place attachment. Applied Geography, 57, 42-53. 

Additional literature of interest

• Adevi, A. A., & Mårtensson, F. (2013). Stress rehabilitation through garden therapy:The garden as a place in the recovery from stress. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 12, 230-237. doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2013.01.007
• Jeffres, L. W., Bracken, C. C., Jian, G., & Casey, M. F. (2009). The impact of third places on community quality of life. Applied research in quality of life, 4(4), 333-345. Chicago
• Albrecht, G., Sartore, C., Connor, L., Higginbotham, N., Freeman, S., Kelly, B., Pollard, G. (2007). Solastalgia: The distress caused by environmental change. Australasian Psychiatry, 3, 41-55.
• Bartos, A. E. (2013). Children sensing place. Emotion, Space and Society, 9(1), 89-98. doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2013.02.008
• Bengtsson, A. (2015). From Experiences of the outdoors to the design of healthcare environments. (Doctoral thesis). Swedish university for Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp. (2015:66). (Chapter 2.3-3.4).
• Bonaiuto, M., & ALves, S. (2012). Residential places and neighborhoods: Towards healthylife, social integration and reputable residence. In S. D. Clayton (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of environmental and conservation psychology New York: Oxford.
• Butler, A., Sarlöv-Herlin, I., Knez, I., Ångman, E., Ode Sang, Å., & Åkerskog, A. (2017) Landscape identity, before and after a forest fire. Landscape Research, 43(6), 878-889. doi:10.1080/01426397.2017.1344205
• Carmona, M. (2019). Place value: place quality and its impact on health, social, economic and environmental outcomes. Journal of Urban Design, 24(1), 1–48.
• Carrus, G., Scopelliti, M., Lafortezza, R., Colangelo, G., Ferrini, F., Salbitano, F., Agrimi, M., Portoghesi, L., Semenzato, P., & Sanesi, G. (2015). Go greener, feel better? The positive effects of biodiversity on the well-being of individuals visiting urban and periurban green areas. Landscape and Urban Planning, 134, 221–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.10.022
• Cele, S. (2006). Communicating place: methods for understanding children's experience ofplace.
  (Doctoral thesis). Stockholm University, Stockholm.
• Cele, S. (2019). Social, Material and Political Constructs of Arctic Childhoods, An Everyday Life Perspective. In K. Malone, M. Tesar, & S. Arndt (Eds.), Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories (pp. 1-15). Singapore: Springer.
• Chawla, L., Keena, K., Pevec, I., & Stanley, E. (2014). Green schoolyards as havens from stress and resources for resilience in childhood and adolescence. Health & Place,28, 1-13. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.03.001
• Dandy, J., Horwitz, P., Campbell, R. S., Drake, D., & Leviston, Z. (2019). Leaving home: place attachment and decisions to move in the face of environmental change. Regional environmental change, 19(2), 615-620.
• Dovey, K. (1985). Home and homelessness. In A. Alterman & C. M. Werner (Eds.), Home environments (pp. 33-64). New York: Plenum Press.
• Forrest, R., & Kearns, A. (2001). Social Cohesion, Social Capital and the Neighbourhood. Urban Studies, 38, 2125-2143. doi:10.1080/00420980120087081
• Giuliani, M. V. (2003). Theory of attachment and place attachment. In M. Bonnes, T. Lee, &M. Bonaiuto (Eds.), Psychological theories for environmental issues (pp. 137-170). Adelshot: Ashgate.
• Gifford, Robert (2007). The consequences of living in high-rise buildings. ArchitecturalScience Review, 50(1), 2-17
• Gustafson, P. E. R. (2001). Meanings of place: Everyday experience and theoretical conceptualizations Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21(1), 5-16. doi:
• Hartig, T., Mang, M., & Evans, G. W. (1991). Restorative effects of natural environment experiences. Environment and Behavior, 23(1), 3–26.
• Hartig, T., Korpela, K., Evans, G. W., & Gärling, T. (1997). A measure of restorative quality in environments. Scandinavian Housing & Planning Research, 14, 175–194.
• Hartig, T., Kaiser, F. G., & Bowler, P. A. (1997). Further Development of a Measure of Perceived Environmental Restorativeness. http://www-hotel.uu.se/ibf/PUBL/Wp/Wp5.pdf
• Hester, R. T. J. (2013). Do Not Detach! Instructions From and For Community Design. In L. C. Manzo & P. Devine-Wright (Eds.), Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (pp. 191-206). London: Routledge.
• Knez, I. (2006). Autobiographical memories for places. Memory, 14(3), 359-377. doi:10.1080/09658210500365698
• Korpela, K., Kyttä, M., & Hartig, T. (2002). Restorative experience, self-regulation, andchildren's place preferences. Journal of environmental psychology, 22(4), 387-398.
• Knöll, M., & Roe, J. J. (2017). Ten questions concerning a new adolescent healthurbanism. Building and Environment, 126, 496-506
• Lewicka, M. (2013). Place inherited or place discovered? Agency and communion in people-place bonding. Estudios De Psicologia, 34(3), 261-274.
• Mihaylov, N., & Perkins, D. D. (2013). Community Place Attachment and its Role in Social Capital Development. In L. C. Manzo & P. Devine-Wright (Eds.), Place Attachment:Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (pp. 61-74). London: Routledge.
• Lewicka, M. (2010). What makes neighborhood different from home and city? Effects of place scale on place attachment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30(1),35-51. doi:
• Lewicka, M. (2011). Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years? Journal of Environmental Psychology, 31, 207-230. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.10.001
• Manzo, L. C., Kleit, R. G., & Couch, D. (2008). "Moving three times is like having your house on fire once": The experience of place and impending displacement among public housing residents.Urban Studies, 45(9), 1855-1878. doi:10.1177/0042098008093381
• Manzo, L. C. (2014). On uncertain ground: being at home in the context of public housing redevelopment. International Journal of Housing Policy. doi:10.1080/14616718.2014.947125
• Marcheschi, E., Laike, T., Brunt, D., Hansson, L., & Johansson, M. (2015). Quality of lifeand place attachment among people with severe mental illness. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 41, 135-154. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.12.003
• Panksepp, J., & Watt, D. (2011). What is basic about basic emotions? Lasting lessonsfrom affective neuroscience. Emotion Review, 3(4), 387-396. doi:10.1177/1754073911410741
• Perkins, D. D., & Long, A. D. (2002). Neighborhood sense of community and social capital: A multi-level analysis. In A. Fisher, C. Sonn, & B. Bishop (Eds.), Psychological sense of community: Research, applications, and implications(pp. 291-318). New York: Plenum.
• Raymond, C. M., Stedman, R., & Frantzeskaki, N. (2023). The role of nature-based solutions and senses of place in enabling just city transitions. Environmental Science & Policy, 144, 10-19.
• Ratcliffe, E., Gatersleben, B., & Sowden, P. T. (2013). Bird sounds and their contributions to perceived attention restoration and stress recovery. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 36, 221–228
• Relph, E. (1976). Place and placelessness. Lewiston New York: Pion.
• Rosenbaum, M. S., Ward, J., Walker, B. A., & Ostrom, A. L. (2007). A cup of coffee with adash of love: An investigation of commercial social support and third-place attachment. Journal of Service research, 10(1), 43-59. Chicago
• Scannell, L., & Gifford, R. (2014). Comparing the theories of interpersonal and place attachment. In Place attachment: advances in theory, methods and applications (pp.23-26).
• Twigger-Ross, C., Bonaiuto, M., & Breakwell, G. (2003). Identity theories and environmental psychology. In M. Bonnes, T. Lee, & M. Bonaiuto (Eds.), Psychological theories for environmental issues (pp. 203-233). Aldershot: Ashgate.
• von Essen, E. & Mårtensson, F. (2017). Young adults' use of emotional food memoriesto build resilience. Appetite, 112, 210-218. doi:
• Wells, N. M., & Lekies, K. S. (2006). Nature and the Life Course: Pathways from ChildhoodNature Experiences to AdultEnvironmentalism. Children, Youth and Environments,16(1), 1-24.
• Whitlock, J. (2007). The role of asults, public space, and power in adolescent community connectedness. Journal of Community Psychology, 35(4), 499-518.doi:10.1002/jcop.20161
• Wildish, B., Kearns, R., & Collins, D. (2016). At home away from home: visitor accommodation and place attachment. Annals of Leisure Research, 19(1), 117-133. doi:10.1080/11745398.2015.1037324
• Winnicott, D. W. (1953). Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena—A Studyof the First Not-Me Possession. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 34, 89-97.
• Wood, L., & Giles-Corti, B. (2008). Is there a place for social capital in the psychologyof health and place? Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28, 154-163. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2007.11.00