Second space

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Second Space is one of the three spaces distinguished by E. Soja. Second space is linked to the concept of Conceveid Space by Lefebvre. Second space is all about the feelings of the human being with a specific (first)space. It’s subjective and normative. In the first space the human being only analysis the space, but in the second space the human being not only analysis the space but add some feelings to these analysis of space. The second space is the space of the planners and urbanists, who model the space and conceptualise it.

Soja defines second space in his book ‘Thirdspace: Journeys to Los angeles and other Real-and-Imagined Places’ (1996). In this book he brings his vision about second space after he reflects on the conceived space from Lefebvre. The connection between conceived space on one hand and second space on the other hand is made in next sentence. In Lefebvre’s conceived space, space is a mental space, “these mental spaces, are thus the representation of power and ideology, of control and surveillance. This secondspace, as I term it, is also the primary space of utopian thought and vision, it’s the semiotician or decoder, and the purely creative imagination some of artists and poets” (Soja, 1996, p. 67)

Source:

-Soja, E.W. (1996). Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford.