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[30] A study on Extracting Positive and Negative Place Characteristics through Residents’ Place Memories
Keywords:Place memory, Text mining, Place characteristics, Free description
This study aims to identify the positive and negative place characteristics through residents’ place memories. An online questionnaire was used to collect place memories from residents in urban and rural areas of Japan. Participants were asked to recall and describe their place memories within local area freely, resulting in 263 valid responses. Text mining analyses were conducted to identify characteristic words or phrases for each setting. The results revealed significant differences in place characteristics between urban and rural areas, with positive place characteristics in urban areas centered around leisure activities and negative characteristics around interpersonal relationships. Conversely, positive characteristics in rural areas were related to natural and cultural events, while negative characteristics were associated with interpersonal relationships and dissatisfaction with living environment. Understanding both positive and negative place characteristics is expected to contribute to the development of an enriched living environment for people.