Social production of space from the perspective of Henry Lefebvre

The main idea of this essay stems from Lefebvre’s belief that space is a social product. This idea, indeed, abandons the traditional perception of the space in which space was mere a framework to be filled with social phenomenon. Yet, unlike Cartesian geometry’s understanding of space, for Lefebvre space is in close relation with power, society and relations of production. Likewise, there is a dual relation between society and space. Hence, this article, through the explanation of Lefebvre’s threefold distinction between spatial practices, representations of space and spaces of representations, to discuss how Lefebvre conceives the production of space as a social process.