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Place is not known only through representation. It is known through atmosphere, repetition, bodily exposure, memory, sensory attention and the traces left by use. SensoryTrace names this mode of knowledge. It captures the residual contact between body and environment: the way a street is remembered by sound, a threshold by light, a neighbourhood by smell, a public space by trust, a route by fatigue, or a lost home by trauma. This reader builds the sensory and methodological chamber of Socioplastics. Jane Jacobs opens the field with the sidewalk. The “eyes on the street” are not simply a planning slogan. They describe an ecology of informal attention produced by mixed uses, small transactions, active frontages, children, shops, dwellings, time and public trust. Urban order emerges from ordinary complexity. Jacobs turns everyday observation into method. She gives the city back to those who inhabit it, watch it, use it and repair it through routine.