Place Identity and its informant parameters in Architectural studies

Research in the field of place identity, has been always with difficulties, due to the absence of an integrated definition about the subject and also lack of an integrated description of motivational, sensual and social processes comprising people’s definition of place and Identity. This research will survey on concept of place identity, place identification levels and effective parameters on expression of place identification, and will study the influence of skeletal and cognitive parameters of the users on shaping the place identity; and in the end will present a model for demonstrating the circumstance of these parameters’ impacts. For this purpose in this article it has been attempted to contain various definitions in this field in order to make a comprehensive image from totality of the subject for the readers, and at last derive a comprehensive and integrated definition so it can accelerate the process of future researches in this field. In order to perceive this paper, the reader should be familiar with basic philosophical concepts such as objectivity and subjectivity. The questions which are attempted to be answered in this paper are those bunches of subjects which pay attention to the definition of identity of a place and effective parameters on this identity.Research queries: -What is place identity? -What are identification parameters? What are identification levels?