ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the theoretical foundations of spatiality of social sustainability. It introduces a methodology to explore the spatiality of outdoor social activities in urban settings. The chapter investigates a number of spatial questions such as typological, temporal, gender, and age pattern of activities in the case of Bethnal Green. It identifies two modes of spatiality of social sustainability: objective spatiality of the physical environment and intersubjective spatiality of the collective mind. Urban space, from a block to the entire city, is the domain of social actions and activities. To map outdoor social activities, the following critical elements need to take into consideration: type of activities, age and gender of actor, pattern of activity, place of activity, and time of activity. Typological pattern of activities shows the overall distribution and intensity of different types of activities. The temporal pattern of activities explores the relationship between different types of activities and time.
