Lefebvre Production Of Space

Translated by donald nicholson smith.

Lefebvre production of space. Library of congress cataloging in publication data lefebvre henri 1905 production de l espace english the production of space henri lefebvre. The production of space is lefebvre s best known and most widely read work. Lefebvre suggests that socially produced space and time is held in place through administrative policies social conventions and technological systems for living so that each day as people wake up to an alarm commute to work watch television or pay bills this system of space and time is perpetuated and reproduced.

Translated by donald nicholson smith p. There are other schemata that are important in the whole argument. Spatialization from natural space absolute space to more complex spatialities whose significance is socially produced i e.

Bd621 l4813 1991 115 dclo typeset in 10 on 12 pt sabon by photo grapbics honiton devon 90 21058 cip. Most summaries of lefebvre emphasize perceived visual space conceived abstract space and lived concrete physical actual space. Includes bibliographical references and index.

He joined the parti communiste français pcf in 1928. In henri lefebvre s terms living things produce space simply by moving. La production de l espace.

He was both a critic of structuralism especially louis althusser s version and existentialism especially jean paul sartre s approach. T here there are different levels of space from very abstract crude natural space absolute space to more complex spatialities whose significance is socially produced social space 2. It was first published in french in 1974.

La production de l espace. The production of space henri lefebvre. What he meant was that an animal s or plant s gestures that is the movements of its body relative to other things create new spatial relationships of left and right above and below in front and behind inside and outside.