ABSTRACT
As a triad, place realization can be described as common presence, responded to by people-in-place, facilitating a specific environmental ensemble. The chapter presents some newspaper entries that point to the range of environmental ordering facilitated through place realization. It then presents some contrasting modes of environmental ordering. These are: place realization arising unself-consciously via everyday lifeworld needs and illustrated by the shop/house, a building type integrating home and business; and, place realization arising self-consciously through self-directed planning and illustrated by McDonald's, the American fast-food company. The four place processes of interaction, identity, release, and realization help one understand what a place is and how it works. In contrast to the triad of place release, which sponsors serendipity and unexpectedness in place, the triad of place realization sponsors ways in which a place remains consistent in space and time.
