The sense of place influences human spatiotemporal behavior through immediate perception and long-term social construction. Community governance oriented by the sense of place can promote community building through the formation and function of place identity, which holds practical significance for fostering social harmony. Reflecting on the theoretical shift in everyday life and integrating the theory of sense of place to construct an analytical framework for community practice, it is argued that the sense of place in communities is generated through daily embodied practices on one hand, and on the other hand, human behavioral mobility gradually transcends the inherent boundaries of communities, expanding into a multi-scalar construction of place meanings from the body to the community and then to the region. Functional community renewal is based on timely responses to residents' demands and multi-stakeholder coordinated governance, reshaping human centrality as a tactical resistance to the alienation of social relations, which can deepen emotional neighborhood connections. Symbolic local culture further transforms the external image of the community into internal life coherence. As a pivotal lever for sustainable community governance, the sense of place should be empirically studied more extensively in small and medium-sized cities in the future to gradually achieve social fairness and justice.