"spatial practice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used in fields such as geography, urban planning, and architecture to describe the ways in which people interact with, use, and shape physical space. Example: The given neighborhood has a clear spatial practice of separating commercial and residential areas, with distinct zones for businesses and homes.
"This is the generation of young architects who may ask if they should be designing the architecture of networks and systems, of societies or conversations, rather than buildings," says Beatrice Galilee, the London-based curator of the third Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which opened this week with the aim of positioning architecture as an "expanding field of critical spatial practice".
This led to distinctive sitting arrangements rooted in the direct interaction and spatial practice of people.
The built environment is thus both a force defining human movements as well as a result of the overall human spatial practice in one place (Sanoff 1974).
Source: Authors Fig. 9 Spatial practice of migrant labourers in the Al Asmagh Street utilising the sidewalk in various activities inlcuding gathering for social purposes.
Rather than treat this as an unplanned, liminal spatial practice, we should instead seek to better theorize and describe its socio-spatial logic.
Fig. 7 Behavioural mapping of a public thoroughfare during weekends Source: Authors Fig. 8 Spatial practice of migrant labourers in the Al Asmagh Street various forms of space appropriation.
The main question addressed is how women exercise agency in embedding spatial practices within their livelihood strategies to reconnect to the city.
However, land tenure and public access significantly guided the spatial practices and values of the people beyond the preferred landscape types.
This paper argues for mosaic governance to work with the heterogeneous array of people, institutions, and spatial practices associated with active citizenship.
The recent urban transformation has led to few last remaining urban spaces, where the spatial practices of lower income migrant communities can be observed in historic and central urban areas.
Such a transformation should stem from the recognition that migrant communities need to have access to develop their own settings that relate to their routine spatial practices while securing the economic basis of many migrant labourers.
