Space is being produced through specific social processes. Unlike other commodities it is at the same time a material object and a medium, in which other commodities and social relations are produced. Thus it permanently reproduces and modifies the social conditions of its own production. It must be understood as a multiple reference point for social struggles: “The city and the urban sphere are thus the setting of struggle; they are also, however, the stakes of that struggle.” (Henri Levèbvre, The Production of Space, 1974)
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with contributions by:
Mark Gottdiener
A Marx for Our Time: Henri Lefebvre and The Production of Space
english original text
Stuart Elden
There is a Politics of Space because Space is Political
english original text
