아파트 외부공간에서 아동의 장소형성에 관한 연구 : A Case Study of Apartment Housing = Place-Definition and Place-Making

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Children's place making was analyzed in neighborhood environments of an apartment site. Open-ended interviews of 34 children, behavior observations of children in neighborhood spaces, and behavior mapping of the places were performed to investigate what were the neighborhood places important to children's everyday life, how they emerged, and what meanings these places had to the children. Ten different places were mentioned as important setting in their neighborhood. These places coincided the locations where behavior observations showed the children were engaged in neighborhood activities most often. This indicates that place and activity correlate. These places were important because they provided settings for social contacts/interactions (including meeting friends), recurrent habitualized activities (including plays), and memories of past events. Important also were physical conditions that helped the children have these experiences. Overall, the analysis indicates that activity is the most important aspect of the place experience, along with friends and play colleagues to share the activities, memories of past events associated with the places, and physical properties of the places supporting the activity experience.