The Quality of Phyisical Environment and Sense of Place Case Study: ShahidBeheshti University Students

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Sense of place which refers to emotional feeling of a person to a specific place  and researchers concept of the environment is one of the  important  and key concepts in the human geography particularly cultural geography.
This research studies and analyzes the quality of physical environment and sense of place among students of Shahid Beheshti University. The research method is of analytical-descriptive type and statistical society of this research is 5644 students of sub sets of human science group of Tehran Shahid Beheshti University. The theoretical framework of the research is based on documentary research and  at the practical part , 400 students were selected using stratified random sampling.
 Findings showed that the variable of university position with  a weighted average of  4.06 and relative weight of 0.27 among the fifteenth variables has the greatest  effect on the place sense of the students and has been given the highest rating .Elements of the physical environment, such as suitable space for walking and wooded green space has designated the highest rank after the university location.
 

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