Space (n.) is a product of everyday life. It is the creative product of the people whose lives are part of it. Bricks and mortar are incidental to the social activities that produce space.
Space (n.) is a social product made up of three elements: Perceived space (i.e. Spatial practice or the way in which space is used)... representations of space, or 'conceptualized space'.
Space (n.) is broadly ideological because it reproduces existing social relations.
Space (n.) is continuously produced as a multiplicity of lived social relations at the same time that it is perceived as a concrete 'already finished' product and conceived in terms of a measurable geometric order.
Space (n.) is expropriated by capitalism in that capitalism repackages it as an abstract commodity which can be bundled much like manufactured commodities such as a bunch of vacuum cleaners, pencils, or sweaters.
Space (n.) is first of all, occupied. The continuous social and physical activity that lefebvre calls the assembly of space presupposes occupation. The question is then, what options and opportunities exist for occupying space'.
Space (n.) is not a neutral container. Rather, it is a practice and is lived directly before it is conceptualized. It is revealed through the deciphering of its space.
Space (n.) is not just a built-environment but a force of production and an object of consumption. It is also an object of political struggle, because space is an instrument of control by the state.
Space (n.) is not something overarching or something that could be called 'frame' or 'point of reference' for lesser notions and applications. On the contrary, space is always specific and unique. It is always specific for a mode of production.
Space (n.) is not just used, but is in fact produced. The industrial capitalist state produces spaces that amount to the colonizing our everyday lives.
Space (n.) is the creative product of the everyday people whose lives are mirrored in it. Just because one cannot overtly see the place-shaping activities in space does not mean that they are not there.
Space (n.) is, under capitalism, made abstract, such that it can be bought, sold, and traded, and done so in such a way that conceals the work of the everyday that is embodied in it. Space can never be abstract because it is a unique product that is part of everyday life.
Space (n.) is understood through action or event... not the detached, abstract, and intellectual acts of decoding signs to get at an understanding of what they symbolise.
Space (n.) is physical and social landscape which is imbued with meaning in everyday place-bound social practices and emerges through processes that operate over varying spatial and temporal scales.