Fields, as sites of frequent and fateful interaction, are implicitly based in places. Studies of fields and field configuring, however, tend to focus on discourse within a field to reveal members’ cognitive understandings and their subject positions. Place—the interplay of geographic location, material forms and meanings— is strikingly absent from theoretical and empirical research on fields. I engaged in a longitudinal case study of a new field created and sustained by field configuring events: the Edinburgh Festivals from 1945 to1971. By drawing on Simmel’s sociology of urban space and social relations, the study reveals that field members employed three place-based mechanisms—cultural brokers, buildings and spatial configuration. Cultural brokers connected local actors to international artists and elites that generated field heterogeneity. Buildings demarcated festivals’ organizational boundaries that enabled multiple festivals to operate simultaneously but also made the landscape readable for audiences. Spatial configuration of multiple diverse festivals’ events proximate to one another facilitated movement between festivals diverse events while enabling a coherent interpretive frame of the field based on place rather than organizational boundaries: Edinburgh Festival. This study demonstrates the value of incorporating place, including Simmel’s sociology of urban space, to reveal how fields are mutually constituted socially, materially and discursively.