Henri Lefebvre

1. Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991)
1.1. Marxist and The French Communist Party
1.2. The influence of Dadism, Surrealism (Marcel Duchamp) and Situationist
1.3. The influence of phenomenology, Nietzsche, Hegel, ... ...

2. Critique of Cartesian theory of space
2.1. Space as category (Euclidean geometry)
2.2. Space as object
2.3. Subject vs. Object (space)
2.4. Modernist concept of space

3. Critique of Capitalism
3.1. Reification of space
3.2. Space as commodity
3.3. Space is de-historicized.

4. Production of space
4.1. Bringing history back to space
4.2. Exploring the agency in space
4.3. Space as "concrete-abstraction": practice-representation

5. Practice, representation, and space
5.1. Spatial practices
The process of appropriation of space by human beings.
-Perception (perceived and concrete space)
-Everyday life
-Body

5.2. Representations of space
The conceptualization of space
-Cognition (conceived and abstract space)
-Symbolic order
-Imaginary

5.3. Space of representation
-Lived space
-Concrete-abstraction

6. Analysis of markets
-Spatial practices in markets
-People's mental maps of markets
-Government's concepts of "markets" (Hong Kong's "market building")
-Developers' concepts of "markets" (shopping mall)

7. Public culture and city
-Public space in culture (representation)
-Public culture in space (practices)
-City as concrete-abstraction

8. Skateboarding
-Spatial practices, architecture and city
-Perception of urban space
-Regulation of public space and skateboarding


References
Henri Lefebvre 1901-1991
Radical Philosophy: Henri Lefebvre 1901-1991
Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space