The threshold would be viewed as part of a larger set of interconnected social spaces; i.e. the social space of the street, the suburb, the city.



Lefebvre defines what he sees as the theoretical error in dealing with the perception of space as when the seer's role is simply as a mediatory process.



"Space that has been seized upon by the imagination cannot remain indifferent space subject to the measures and estimates of the surveyor".[12]