ABSTRACT
Examples are explored to illustrate the implications a physical context has for the integration of personal intentions and social actions. That integration derives from knowledge of who might be found where doing what – a ‘cognitive ecology’. The environmentally related roles people have within that ecology influence both their conceptualizations of any place and their actions within it. Those actions are part of a feedback process that is supported by located norms – ‘rules of place’. The model of human experience and use of places presented is shown to have implications for understanding environmental satisfaction and the power of human agency in understanding the meaning of places.
