Turning to social representation theory to cope with change of urban space.
🧐Knowing and becoming aware of change
🤔Interpreting potential outcomes
🤨Evaluating options
😌Coping with change anxiety
😊Acting on coping mechanisms
#behavioralgeography
#urbanrenewal
#environmentalpsychology
@geography
https://interplace.io/p/the-psychology-of-neighborhood-defenders#details

Three-stage process of trauma associated with disruption of place:

1️⃣Pre-disruption: Anticipating possible outcomes or imagining potential futures.
2️⃣Disruption: Immediate feelings of anxiety and grief from loss or disruption.
3️⃣Post-disruption: Anxiety associated with adapting to change.
#traumahealing
#behavioralgeography
#fear
#urbanrenewal
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https://interplace.io/p/the-psychology-of-neighborhood-defenders#details

What is it about place that makes people want to defend it or upend it like a battlefield? Why not append it or amend it like a constitution? Or tend it and mend it like a garden?
#urban
#waroncars
#behavioralgeography
#metaphors
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https://interplace.io/p/the-psychology-of-neighborhood-defenders#details