ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship between the everyday neighbourhood spatial practices of Turkish immigrant women, with regard to the social construction of urban public spaces and formation of everyday belonging, and representations of neighbourhood public space in the Dutch context. The diversity of Turkish immigrant women's social constructions of neighbourhood urban public spaces, which in turn shape or frame their spatial behaviour, are elaborated in relation to different characteristics and kinds of neighbourhood spaces, their planning and design. Deppenbroek and Wesselerbrink represent typical Dutch post-war neighbourhoods, designed according to the principles of the functional city and developed according to two main goals: to care for social hygiene and health and to establish social order by means of physical planning. Social relations in repetitive activities and daily-life routines, located in time-space, can have regularized consequences in the boundary-making processes for individuals who engage in those activities. Everyday routines install Turkish women's spatial literacy in the neighbourhood.
