We notice nowadays a strong enthusiasm for affectivity in urban planning, and more generally in sciences concerned with the spatial conditions of society. More and more authors emphasize the importance and the need of taking into account sensitive data. Endorsing this goal, the purpose of the article is to show how the affective bond between man and environment provide useful knowledge for planning theory and practice. Thus we promote that affective bond to space, including the way we feel and the way we represent our feeling, is a subsequent dimension of place settlement, participating to individual and collective spatial organization. Finally, by proposing a method for measuring affective bond, and its biographical construction, we suggest a new way for approaching an experience that is usually quite difficult to reach.
