Journal of Iranian Architecture & Urbanism. 12(1): 93-110, Spring & Summer 2021 ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER Journal of Iranian Architecture & Urbanism (JIAU) Homepage: htps://www.isau.ir/ Determining the efectve factors on promotng the “place atachment” for the residents of con- temporary neighborhoods centers (Case study: Kooy-e-Asatd neigborhood in Yazd ci ty) * Ali Riahi Dehkordi 1 , Mahdi Montazerolhoja 2,** , Mojtaba Sharifnejad 3 1 M.A in Urban Design, Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. 2 Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. 3 Instructor, Department of Urban Planning, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. ** Corresponding Author: Email:montazer@yazd.ac.ir Phone: +98(913)1536956 Number of References B ACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Place atachment is one of the topics in the feld of urban design. This concept is a result of linking people with their environment in order to improve environmental quality. The concept of place atachment includes diferent scales, including city, house, and neighborhood atachment; however, peoples’ atachment to their residental environments is the most important. Place atachment is manifested in neighborhood atachment formaton by staying and living in the residental environments and eventually developing strong interest. Neighborhood centers are considered the most prominent component of neighborhoods and play an important role in keeping the neighborhood alive to shape neighborhood atachment for residents. Kooy-e-Asatd neighborhood center located in district three of Yazd is the main part of the neighborhood; however, it is faced with many environmental issues such as deteriorated social relatonships and declined security due to the reduced presence of people. There are other destructve problems in this neighborhood center, such as the loss of cohesion and spatal integrity due to unbuilt spaces and consequently reduced place atachment and bad quality of life. However, there are some consideratons that place atachment can increase people’s presence and make sense of atachment in their neighborhood center and functonally save it from isolaton. Therefore, the main purpose of this quanttatve study is to determine the afectng factors and their impacts on promotng place atachment. M ETHODS: In this regard, in order to collect informaton, library documents and resources, interviews, feld observatons, and questonnaires have been used. Eventually, in order to analyze the obtained data SPSS sofware has been used. The questonnaire designed to be distributed among the residents of the Kooy-e- Asatd neighborhood consisted of 44 questons of variables, and in order to measure the results, a 5-point Likert scale was used. The statstcal populaton included all 1182 people (342 households), and the sample size was 181 questonnaires, calculated by Cochran’s formula at 95% confdence level with p = q = 0.5 and with error d = 0.1. Then, they were distributed among the respondents by using the available sampling method. In order to assess the reliability of the questonnaire, the “Cronbach’s alpha” test was used, and to evaluate the normality of data distributon, the “Kolmograph-Smirnov” test was utlized. The Bartlet test was applied to determine the correlaton between the research data. Finally, the exploratory factor analysis test was used to analyze the afectng factors on the promoton of residents’ place atachment. F INDINGS: Findings indicate that among the factors extracted from the questonnaires, physical-visual factors (cumulatve factor load of 20.769), individual characteristcs (cumulatve factor load of 36.645), personal and collectve memories and values ( Cumulatve factor load 45.760), spatal facilites (cumulatve factor load 544.184) and distance from neighborhood center (cumulatve factor load 58.900) have the most impacts on Kooy-e- Asatd neighborhood residents’ place atachment, respectvely. Furthermore, among the obtained factors, the physical-visual factor with indicators such as architectural Place Atachment Exploratory Factor Analysis Neighborhood Center Yazd ARTICLE INFO Extended ABSTRACT Artcle History: Received Reviesed Accepted Available Online 2019/05/15 2020/01/17 2020/07/23 2021/05/31 Keywords: htps://dx.doi.org/10.30475/isau.2021.185974.1217 * This artcle is derived from the frst author`s master thesis enttled “Redesign of the Neighbourhood Center with Emphasis on the En- hancement of the Resident’s Place Atachment, Case Study: Neighbourhood Center of Kooy-e Asatd;the City of Yazd ”, supervised by the second author and advised by the third author, at Yazd University. Use your device to scan and read the artcle online 74 Number of Figures 6 Number of Tables 9 © 2021, JIAU. All rights reserved.