ABSTRACT
Children’s spatial development is impossible without attachment to a place, and it is important to know the different aspects of children’s attachment patterns for their surroundings. As children grow, their attachments shift from a social attachment (focused on people) to place attachment (focused on physical environments), and place attachment from a functional aspect to an aesthetic aspect according to perceptual maturation.
Only when the ability to integrate the holistic quality of place matures in the early stages of development can children feel attachment to places of aesthetic value that enrich their overall quality of life. Another characteristic related to childhood place attachment is the importance of outdoor space verified by the fact that the majority of adults’ memory places are outdoor space. Childhood places as a field of developmental shift and a meaningful place imprinted on adult memory deserve more attention.
