ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces place identity broadly and then describes some situations that illustrate varying degrees by which people identify or do not identify with place. As a triad, place identity is expressed as 2–3–1 (EE–CP–PP), whereby common presence, as reconciling impulse, facilitates a bonding between the receptive impulse of environmental ensemble and the affirmative impulse of people-in-place. If interaction and identity mark the core of place and lived emplacement, they are complemented by the four other triads of place – place release, place realization, place creation, and place intensification. Eric Klinenberg's contrasting neighborhoods of North Lawndale and Little Village are an insightful example of the interdependent relationship. The chapter concludes by linking Klinenberg's findings with the urban understanding of Jane Jacobs, who argues that robust urban places are, first of all, a diverse fabric of people and place interactions concentrated in the street ballet.
