ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the triad of place intensification. Place intensification points to the importance of the physical environment in place making, and place creation points to the importance of innovative design, planning, policy, and advocacy. Place intensification demonstrates how the environmental ensemble, even as receptive impulse, plays an active role in facilitating place. Architectural theorist Kim Dovey argues that environmental elements providing for and improving everyday life illustrate appropriation, which involves responsibility and care for the world at hand. The design aim is to facilitate impulse use whereby would-be users are drawn into the plaza or park without realizing it. In terms of place intensification, space syntax illustrates how one aspect of the environmental ensemble – its spatial and topological features. Jane Jacobs' work is relevant to place intensification because she identifies key physical and spatial features of the city's environmental ensemble that play an important role in facilitating exuberant street activity.
