Mesa-Pedrazas, Torrado and Duque-Calvache shift urban analysis from where activities occur to how everyday space becomes inhabited. Their study distinguishes commuting spaces, self-realisation spaces and spaces of care, showing that each follows different patterns of concentration and dispersion and is conditioned by work, children, age, gender and socioeconomic position. Place attachment and neighbourhood perception also significantly affect these spatial configurations, particularly the distribution of self-realisation activities. The paper’s strongest conceptual move is its proposal to replace the neutral category of “living spaces” with “lived-in spaces”: spatial behaviour is not adequately explained by coordinates and trips alone because repetitive experience, memories, emotions, shared imaginaries and community relations participate in the construction of everyday territory. This provides a precise bridge to appropriation. A place becomes inhabited through recurrence and meaning, while inequality shapes the radius within which such appropriation is possible. Urban life therefore appears as a patterned geography of obligation, care, elective activity and self-realisation.
