ABSTRACT
In analytic research, for example, place is typically interpreted as a dependent variable shaped by independent variables as age, social status, home ownership, or duration of place involvement. Ultimately, the place impulses conjoin in varying degrees of intensity whereby each impulse participates in stronger or weaker ways. In short, a triadic understanding of place assumes that, as human beings, people are always human-beings-in-place, simply because, wherever, whoever, and however people are, regardless of whether people cherish or loathe emplaced situation. Although any specific place's environmental ensemble is unique, it is integral as an impulse for the place triad because it provides the material foundation for place events, transactions, experiences, and meanings. The most difficult element of the place triad to locate is the reconciling impulse, which the author identify as common presence, defined as the material and lived "togetherness" of a place impelled by both its physical and experiential qualities.
