"...Engergized Collective Perception." (Eliasson, Birnbaum, 139)

Crisis of place exist because edge conditions exist to pull individuals from fully interacting with their environment, the tangible interactions that is otherwise required to create definition of place. These edges exist as long stretches of highway infrastructure, segregating people from the physical closeness of their city and home, they exist as architecture that is purely anchored by aesthetics, promoting purely perceptual participation and nothing else, they are mental edges created by large spans of divide, placed between us and our neighbors and us and the city, and as a result is responsible for the undeveloped mental image of place. To correct what has become individuals fragments and often individualized understanding of place, a condition must be made available in order that one can enter into a realm of "collective perception" (Birnbaum, 139). The result of such a spatial condition will "release men and women from the confines of their prvate spaces... changing damaged individual experiences into energized collective perception. (Birnhaum, 139).

Consider for example, a movie theatre; the act of watching a movie amongst a hundred or so other participants, is an act of collective perception. Within a few second of the movie, one must fully and completely give themself up to the realm of cinema in order to completely grasp the story line, this is not an act that is just occuring within the confines of one's own mental capacity but rather one that is shared and experienced by others within the theatre. The simple act of shared experiences, allowed for what Walter Benjamin declares as a moment of emancipation that occurs as one reconstructs subjectivity.