Evaluation of sense of place with an emphasis on physical and environmental factors in urban beach (Case of Study: Boushehr Town)

Sense of place is one of the vital concepts in promoting the quality of human environment. This concept finally leads to creation of a high quality environment because of its important role in initiating interactions among the people and urban environment. The article aims to evaluate physical and environmental factors in improving the sense of place in the case of study Boushehr beach. Methodology of research is analytical-descriptive. This study, explaining different aspects of sense of place, determines the critical roles of physical and environment factors and how they affecting the sense of place. Also, physical and environmental factors in Boushehr beach are investigating and exploring different ideas of the experts and users of the beach. The general goal of the research is to probe into the relationship of the environmental factors, locations, availability, spatial variety, security, human criteria, visual beauty, and penetrability with the sense of place in Boushehr beach. In doing so, SPSS Software has and Spearman Correlation Test been applied to evaluate the relationship between each pair of variables and the confidence level was considered to be 95%. The results show that, environmental factors, location, availability, spatial variety, security, and penetrability have significant impacts on boosting sense of place of Boushehr beach.