Abstract:

Henri Lefebvre differentiated clearly urbanization from industrialization. He posed the Right to the City and urban revolution， claiming that urbanization was the essence of globalization. He considered cities as a texture background of the global space and city space as a product of capitalism. Lefebvre's sociological city space theory inherited and developed Marxist theories and methodology. It was creative and filled in the blank space in the area of sociological space theory. It has tremendous explanatory and descriptive power in helping with the understanding of contemporary Chinese society. Lefebvre's sociological city space theory is abstract and has utopia properties.

Key words: Henri Lefebvre, city, space, sociology