We recognize different kinds of place change. Cities grow larger or smaller, feel more lively or run down, appear more beautiful or more ugly to the sense. We feel that they get better or worse. We talk bout ruin and renewal, urban decay and restoration, decline and recovery. Jane Jacobs put it tersely as the “death and life” of cities. Nevertheless, civic identity endures despite vast changes of place. We continue to identify Rome, for example, as the “same” place over time – even though we recognize the enormous changes distinguishing the historical cities of Caesar, Petrarch, and Mussolini. No city is what is used to be. The same place does not remain the same. Yet, despite great changes, some places continue to make sense