Place Attachment of Ancient Bridge: Socio-Cultural Perspective Exploration of the SDG

Context: Socio-cultural sustainability has been a crucial component of sustainable conservation of architectural heritage. Place attachment is an observed social phenomenon that is often appears in the research of architectural heritage. Gap: Few researchers pay attention to place attachment as a socio-cultural pathway for sustainable conservation. Objective: This paper brings together the existing scholarship on place attachment and sustainable conservation studies in order to discuss the formation and dimension of place attachment among the Bai people, focusing on the Bai people who live around Tongjing Bridge and Caifeng Bridge. Method: Forty-two Bai residents were randomly selected to conduct semi-structuredand in-depth interviews, and then the interview transcripts were encoded and summarized by thematic analysis method. Results and Discussion: 1. Place attachment is easily formed in rural community, ethnic enclaves, religious places,andarchitectural heritage, and Yunnan ancient bridges have all these attributes. 2.The Yunnan Ancient Bridges demonstrate place attachment through four aspects: place dependence, place identity, social bonding, and affective attachment. Contribution: The study provides a novel approach to conserving bridge as a heritage resource to Bai community. It focuses on the invisible attribute of ancient bridges that is place attachment.And it offers sustainable development guidance to practitioners in a variety of sectors, including landscape planners and government officials.