Reframing the meaning and reading of place: interdisciplinary insights for urban and architectural design
JOURNAL OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING, cilt.1, ss.1-20, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, AHCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/13467581.2026.2706257
- Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, Materials Science & Engineering Collection (ProQuest), Technology Collection (ProQuest), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Compendex, Index Islamicus, Art Source, Directory of Open Access Journals
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-20
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Maltepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This article examines how “place meaning” and “place reading” have been addressed across built-environment disciplines, with attention to their implications for urban and architectural design. Drawing on 337 WoS-indexed publications (1977–2025), the study combines keyword cooccurrence analysis, exploratory temporal keyword mapping, and qualitative interpretation to examine disciplinary distributions, conceptual associations, and recent thematic orientations. Environmental Studies and Geography account for the largest shares, followed by Sociology and Urban Studies, while Architecture, despite lower counts, offers a limited but relevant connection to design-oriented debates. The keyword co-occurrence analysis identifies a conceptual core around “place meaning”, place attachment, sense of place, identity-related terms, and placemaking. In contrast, “place reading” is treated as a bounded interpretive lens that connects these meanings to spatial, cultural, symbolic, and institutional contexts. Temporal mapping suggests changing thematic visibility within the dataset, from affective–experiential and identityrelated concerns toward ecological, methodological, and governance-oriented issues. Recent thematic orientations include coastal and rural contexts, participatory and local governance, aesthetic and creative practices, and model-based methods such as structural equation modeling. Overall, the article offers a structured conceptual reference for further research, while recognizing that empirical and practice-based studies are needed to translate these orientations into design- methods and applications.