Research On The Characteristics Of Residents’ Sense Of Place In National Famous Historical Cities

The sense of place describes the subjective feeling of a person or a group towards the place,including psychology,emotion and function.It is an important topic in the research field of human geography.The national historical city is an important decision made by the state to protect the city with important historical and cultural value.However,with the rapid development of urban modernization,many famous historical cities in many countries are facing the problems of "one side thousand cities",such as the homogenization of cities,the loss of characteristics,the serious commercialization and the demolition of historic building.The purpose of this study is to find out the emotional connection of residents’ sense of place in a famous historical and cultural city by combining the theory of famous historical and cultural city and sense of place,and then to put forward some Suggestions for improving residents’ sense of place and protecting the famous historical and cultural city.As the second batch of national historical cities,Shenyang has a clear historical development vein.Therefore,this research takes Shenyang as a case,using the SPSS25.0 statistical analysis software,the reliability analysis,exploratory factor analysis,the mean comparison as well as the methods of one-way ANOVA,from two aspects of sense of place theory and historical and cultural familiarity to study the formation of historical and cultural city residents place feeling dimensions,and analysis the sense of place influence factors of residents in Shenyang.This study divides the sense of place into three dimensions: local identity,local dependence and local attachment.The research shows that:(1)Shenyang residents’ sense of place is positive in three dimensions;(2)Under different social-demographic characteristics and behavioral characteristics,there are significant differences in shenyang residents’ sense of place.(3)With different historical and cultural familiarity,residents in Shenyang also have significant differences in their sense of place,and the higher the historical and cultural familiarity,the stronger the sense of place.(4)Improving residents’ familiarity with famous historical and cultural cities can improve residents’ sense of place,which is conducive to the protection of national famous historical and cultural cities.The research results not only obtained the dimensions and influencing factors of the sense of place of national historical and cultural cities,but also provided reasonable suggestions for the government of shenyang to protect the historical and cultural districts,immovable cultural relics and publicize the intangible cultural heritage.