Cartography and Spatial Production of Society

The differentiation between Henri Lefebvre's spatial practice (perceived space), representation of space (conceived space), and space of representation (lived space) is still very influential in the anglophone academic rhetoric in the field of urban and territorial studies. However, it short-circuits itself. There is no such thing as what Lefebvre calls the "social production of space" . This paper argues that only the spatial, i.e. cartographic, production of society exists.