Investigating the effect of physical components on place attachment in order to fulfilling sustainable neighborhood, Case Study: Ahwaz City

Place attachment is one of complicated processes that forms from the relationship of human and environment. Because of establishing affective relationship, it will have positive behavioral implications on the environment. What contributes to strengthening place attachment and consolidates the links of residents with the place is an important achievement for urban planners in order to achieve a qualitative improvement of human habitation in the environment. This paper is aimed to investigate the effect of physical features of the place on place attachment in order to fulfilling sustainable neighborhood. The research methodology is descriptive-analytical and it is practical in terms of purpose. After documentary studies, data was collected through a field survey in Ahwaz city. Data collection tool was a questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using spss and Amos graphic software. The results show the amount of place attachment and satisfaction of physical characters of place are significantly higher than the average amount in understudy area. From the outputs results of the Amos software, number of indicators (greater than 0.9) confirms fitting the designed structural equation model. The average of the variance explained for each structure is greater than 0.5 and from 0.51 to 0.62, respectively. The study of the first and second hypotheses confirms the significant effect of physical components and the objective and subjective factors of it on place attachment, also the proportion of subjective factors was greater of place attachment construction.