O APEGO PELO LUGAR DE MORAR: VILA MONTICELLI EM GOIÂNIA-GO

Abstract

The human being establishes affective ties each others and also with the place where lives. To explain this relation and verify the existence of affection by the neighborhood, was necessary a bibliographic survey, using several authors from different areas, mainly from geography and psychology areas with a small survey in the sociology area. This investigative material was the base for the reflexion from the collected data in the field research performed with Monticelli village residents in the Goiânia city in Goiás state. According to the geographer Tuan (1980) the person affective relation with a place is denominated Topofily and can happen as a result from a familiarity with the local. According to Giuliani (2004), when a person stays for a long time in the same place can develop an attachment by it and defines as an affective link between the person and the place, the desire to be near it. This place for the survey refers to the neighborhood where the persons live for a long time, establish social relations and identify with it. They can become fond of the quarter by the emotional link related with the relative ties, life history in the place or with the local identity and also by the functional connection , related with the satisfaction of basic necessities that the neighborhood offers, as was evidenced at the end of this study.