What makes neighborhood different from home and city? Effects of place scale on place attachment

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-51

  Lewicka, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Place attachment; Predictors of place attachment; Scale of place

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549135925     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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