(Social) space is a (social) product; in order to understand this fundamental thesis
it is necessary, first of all, to break with the widespread understanding of space
imagined as an independent material reality existing “in itself.”Against such a view,
Lefebvre, using the concept of the production of space, posits a theory that understands
space as fundamentally bound up with social reality. It follows that space “in itself”
can never serve as an epistemological starting position. Space does not exist “in
itself”; it is produced.