Lynne C. Manzo

• PhD in Environmental Psychology
• Professor (Associate) at University of Washington

Uncertainty and change are increasingly commonplace as communities respond to impacts of social-ecological change including climate change, and dangerous levels of pollution. Given the extent of these crises, new approaches are needed to support responses. Here we identify challenges and discuss insights that the nexus of Senses of place (SoP) and...

Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by m...

Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by m...

The recent global financial crisis increased the volatility of housing markets and furthered the ongoing disinvestment in public sector housing. This disinvestment has been manifest in urban restructuring programmes involving both the privatisation and the wholesale demolition of public/social housing. For example, programmes like HOPE VI in the US...

In some US metropolitan areas, increasing diversity among assisted housing residents due to influxes of immigrants and refugees is commonplace and creates new challenges for implementing public housing redevelopment. However, US redevelopment policy does not recognize this diversity. Responding to this gap, this paper summarizes findings from focus...

Aim: The aim of this study is to describe pain symptom experiences of women with osteoarthritis (OA) in outdoor environments. Rationale: Symptom Management Theory (SMT; originally called the Symptom Management Model; Dodd et al., 2001), includes the physical environment as a factor that may influence pain. Outdoor environments may contribute to p...

Historically, dominant groups have used the rhetoric of place in the service of certain social agendas, particularly regarding the poor and the minority, as evidenced in the discourse on slum clearance in the 1960s. This rhetoric has emerged anew in the recent discourse on mixed-income housing programs both in the United States and in Western Europ...

The HOPE VI programme in the US displaces tens of thousands of low-income households to disperse pockets of poverty and transform sites of `severely distressed' public housing into mixed-income housing. A complete evaluation of this programme's impacts on residents must examine the meanings and functions of these communities before they are dismant...

This paper explores how multicultural politics and the geography of immigration present challenges for the consideration of place identity in community planning and design in older "ethnic" neighborhoods. Seattle's historic Chinatown-International District (C-1D), a prime example of an urban space shaped by changing multi-ethnic immigration pattern...

This article draws connections between the environmental and community psychology literature on place attachment and meaning with the theory, research, and practice of community participation and planning. Each area of inquiry has much to offer the other, yet few links have been made between them. Typically, literature on place attachment focuses o...

As the HOPE VI (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere) program redevelops public housing, residents must relocate. Little is known about how they make the choice to stay or to go, if they are given one. Survey interviews with 200 residents of Seattle's High Point HOPE VI project provide the data to address four questions about such moves. Fir...

This paper explores the nature of people's emotional relationships to places in order to learn about the kinds of places that are meaningful for people, the role these places play in their lives and the processes by which they develop meaning. Because such relationships have been most commonly explored through positive experiences of the residence,...

An extensive and ever-growing body of literature exists that explores the nature and nuances of people's emotional relationships to place. This includes writings on sense of place, place attachment and place identity. A review of this literature suggests that while these concepts are broadly defined and discussed in theory, their application in res...

Conducted 2 case studies of New York City communities to investigate factors influencing participation in community gardens. Interviews with 17 gardening and 14 nongardening residents revealed differences between these groups in terms of previous environmental experiences, rootedness in the community, social interaction with people in the neighborh...

This investigation explored the factors that produce a significant behavioral commitment to environmental protection. Interviews were conducted with members of the Sierra Club: 47 who were active in Club activities and 46 who were not active. The variables for which significant between-group differences were found include: Club-related friendships,...