ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the six place processes and examines interactions among them as a conceptual means to understand how places change over time. To think about places as events offers one conceptual means for integrating the six place processes as they unfold in space and time as a physical and lived expression of synergistic relationality. Place creation requires dedicated, well-informed individuals who thoughtfully improve place, whereas place intensification identifies the independent power of appropriate designs and fabrications to revive and strengthen place by being one way materially and spatially rather than some other. In turn, the lived reciprocity between place interaction and identity sustains place release in that environmental serendipity offers the surprises and pleasures of place unexpectedness. For studying and designing real-world places, the perspective of synergistic relationality offers many advantages because it cleaves more closely to the lived reality of place, place experience, and lived emplacement.
