Socio-spatial pattern of territorial

identity
Summary
This article highlights the influence of capitals – financial, human,
social or even institutional – that are unequally distributed from one
local community to the next within the context of planning
governance. In other words, geographic asymmetries can be seen to
have an impact on spatial planning because of their reproduction in
the planning processes.

The “ecological” features of the area clearly influence the degree and
type of identification with attachment to the local community. It is
stronger in small rural communities. However urban areas do not by
themselves mean universalism and cosmopolitanism. At least in our
sample, the local bond is expressed by the acknowledgment of the
community of local values, mentality and language”.

The index refers both to the spatial and the social-interactive contexts
of seven aspects (home, cluster of neighboring homes, neighborhood
and city in the spatial context and friends, work and leisure activities
in the social context) of agents’ everyday life actions as they are
actually performed in their everyday time-spaces. The paper
calculates the segregation of seven persons who represent seven
typical lifestyles. Each lifestyle differs in its preferences for location in
social spaces and in performing everyday life activity orbits. In
addition, no correlation between spatial and social segregation has
been identified. Several agents were socially much more segregated
than spatially, while others were spatially more segregated than
socially.