Purpose

More research is needed to consider residents’ perceptions prior to hosting large-scale events. This paper contributes new insight on residents’ perceptions of placemaking analysed by considering awareness, enthusiasm and participation prior to hosting a large-scale event. Placemaking is becoming increasingly important and this insight can help planners understand how locals perceive change and event planning preparations.

Design/methodology/approach

454 residents of Rijeka, Croatia completed a survey (seven-point Likert scale) of 17 placemaking principles, asked in three ways: (1) how you feel; (2) how you believe people near you feel and (3) if you feel that planning/preparing for ECoC 2020 has made a difference. The data analysis considers socio-demographics and the significance of awareness, enthusiasm and participation as factors affecting residents’ perceptions of placemaking.

Findings

The study found respondents originally from Rijeka expressed statistically significant higher level of agreement. Where statistically significant differences exist, female respondents expressed statistically significant higher levels of agreement. For six statements, the distribution of results was not similar for all age groups. Awareness and enthusiasm seems to influence placemaking principles to a greater extent than participation in this study, but all have proven to have statistically significant positive impacts on the placemaking principles assessed.

Practical implications

Planners need to focus on effective promotional activities aimed at awareness and enhance enthusiasm to help increase perceptions of placemaking and increase local quality of life.

Originality/value

explores perceptions of “self” and “how others feel” by assessing principles of placemaking associated with the case of Rijeka. This allows researchers to explore understandings of how people perceive the attitudes of their fellow residents.

中文翻译：

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在举办重大文化活动之前评估居民对城市场所营造的看法

目的

在举办大型活动之前，需要更多研究来考虑居民的看法。本文通过在举办大型活动之前考虑意识，热情和参与度，为居民对场所营造的看法提供了新的见解。场所制作变得越来越重要，这种见解可以帮助计划者了解当地人如何看待变更和活动计划的准备工作。

设计/方法/方法

克罗地亚里耶卡的454位居民完成了一项针对17个场所原则的调查（七点李克特量表），以三种方式询问：（1）您的感觉；（2）您如何相信附近的人；（3）您是否认为为ECoC 2020进行规划/准备有所作为。数据分析考虑了社会人口统计学以及意识，热情和参与的重要性，这些是影响居民对场所营造的看法的因素。

发现

该研究发现，最初来自力耶卡的受访者表示统计学上较高的一致水平。在存在统计学上显着差异的地方，女性受访者表示统计学上较高的协议水平。对于六项陈述，结果的分布在所有年龄组中均不相同。意识和热情似乎比参与这项研究更大程度地影响场所制定原则，但事实证明，所有这些因素均对所评估的场所制定原则具有统计学上的显着积极影响。

实际影响

规划人员需要集中精力进行有效的宣传活动，以提高认识并增强热情，以帮助人们提高对场所营造的认识并提高当地生活质量。

创意/价值

通过评估与里耶卡（Rijeka）案有关的场所营造原则，探索“自我”和“他人的感受”的观念。这使研究人员能够探索人们如何看待同胞的态度。