Place Attributes and Place Preference The case of Lagar Railway Station–Beherawi Theatre area and Captain H/G/Sellassie Street .
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2010-12
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Addis Ababauniversity
Abstract
Addis Ababa has been subjected to different kinds of urban developments which are undertaken
at different times: past and present. The city is now witnessing the product of these two kinds of
urban developments. The places created by these two urban development activities vary
significantly; some places in the past developments arguably, to a certain level, have good place
attributes which can be prototypes. They have good physical setting, activities and impart strong
meanings. On the other hand the present developments lack strong place attributes. They have
problems in the physical setting, in the activities that take place in these areas and in the
meanings they impart.
This requires proper investigation in to which places do people prefer, to what extent the past
urban development areas are having the place attributes and recent urban development areas are
lacking them.
The investigation was made by studying two places selected from the rapidly growing urban
areas in Addis Ababa and the other from the past developments. That is, Captain H/G/Sellassie
Street (CHAGS) and Lagar Railway Station-Beherawi Theatre (LRS-BT) areas respectively.
The study was made by measuring the two places with place preference (attachment) indicators
and place attributes or urban design qualities which are collected from different sources. These
were further refined in to two pillars of evaluation. The first was questionnaires for users of place
in each location and the second was the expert evaluation format with which an expert evaluation
was made in the two places. The target of questionnaires was to find out important components
of places as answered by respondents in the two case study areas: the place preference of
respondents and their opinions on place attributes (urban design qualities). The place preference
component targeted to find out place preference, reason for place preference and the level of
attachment. On the other hand the place attributes component of the questionnaire dealt with the
level of place attributes as indicated by respondents. As to investigation on place attachment,
questions were that deal with place preference, reason of preference, level and kind of place
attachment were added to the questionnaires
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Lagar Railway