ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes a constructive, place-strengthening process incorporating Dalibor Vesely's reconciliation of "what is already present" and "what was not here before." It explains some newspaper stories that illustrate place creation, though one account relates to a destructive "production" of place rather than to its creative strengthening. The chapter presents the constructive place creations that include place-based wind turbines, landscape repair, and the fabrication of wholeness. Pictured as a triad, place creation can be described as committed and knowledgeable people-of-place who make creative shifts in their place's environmental ensemble that invigorate the place's common presence. The draw on Gordon G. Brittan's work as an example of place creation because his efforts offer a perspicacious example of one group of committed individuals who work to envision one new element of the environmental ensemble that might strengthen place, place experience, place actions, and place meanings. In the sense, Jane Jacobs' work is an applied phenomenology of the city and urban place making.
