The Role of Place Experience and Satisfaction in Revisit Intention at Trabzon's Avni Aker Millet Bahçesi
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https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2025.320Keywords:
Place experience, Place satisfaction, Public gardens, Revisit intentionAbstract
Urban open spaces create experience spaces for users with the physical and social features they offer. "Millet Bahçesi" is one of the places designed and implemented in recent years within the scope of open spaces. This research aims to investigate the effects of the environmental features of the Millet Bahçesi on place experience and place satisfaction, as well as revisit intention within the scope of open spaces. In this context, the environmental characteristics of "Trabzon Avni Aker Millet Bahçesi" were evaluated by post-use evaluation method with 211 users. Scales were applied to measure the effects of environmental features on place satisfaction and revisit Intention The research conducted correlation and regression analyses between socio-demographic characteristics, space use characteristics, environmental characteristics, place satisfaction and revisit intention. As a result of the study, when we examined the factors affecting the revisit intention, it was seen that only the factors "place satisfaction, sociability, uses and activities, revisit Intention" were included in the model. In this research, aims to focus only on the environmental characteristics of open spaces. In this regard, the newly implemented Millet Bahçesi, where the users have no previous experience, was chosen as the study area. Evaluations can also be made in open spaces where users have past experiences. It is very important to determine the factors that affect the sense of satisfaction as a result of the place experience in urban open spaces that play an important role in the city center, such as Trabzon Avni Aker National Garden. The importance of spatial designs and socialization opportunities that offer diversity in terms of uses and activity in particular on the sense of satisfaction is explained. Additionally, comparisons can be made by examining more than one Millet Bahçesi. These are among the limitations of the research. The results of this study, which focuses on urban open space environmental characteristics, are significant for city managers, designers and users. In particular, the factors affecting the revisit intention will contribute to the design process of newly designed open spaces.
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