A 'placeful' station? The community role in place making and improving hedonic value at local railway stations
Alexander, Matthew and Hamilton, Kathy (2015) A 'placeful' station? The community role in place making and improving hedonic value at local railway stations. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 82. pp. 65-77. ISSN 0965-8564 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2015.09.006)
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Abstract
In recent years, railway stations have come to be seen as non-places within society, points of transit and nothing more. The role of the station in place making is disputed with stations seen as both creating and destroying a sense of place within a community. Our study is located within the railway stations of Scotland and explores how local communities have been empowered to reclaim, customise, and re-appropriate stations to simultaneously create a sense of place and better promote their community to the outside world. Drawing on ethnographic research we refute the notion that stations are somehow ‘placeless’. We show how through a process of legitimisation, a sense of ownership and appropriation of the station environment, communities are able to transform the station, improving hedonic value and recapturing a sense of place.
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Alexander, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3770-8056 and Hamilton, Kathy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5342-6166;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 54268 Dates: DateEvent1 December 2015Published27 September 2015Published Online10 September 2015AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Commerce > Marketing. Distribution of products
Social Sciences > Communities. Classes. RacesDepartment: Strathclyde Business School > Marketing Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 11 Sep 2015 13:46 Last modified: 13 Nov 2024 01:11 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/54268