In "Situationalist Spaces," Thomas McDonough writes about the new way the map of Paris is viewed by looking at the piece The Naked City. The Naked City is composed of nineteen cut-out sections of a map of Paris, printed in black ink. This piece was not like an ordinary map. "The Naked City denies space as context and instead incorporates space as an element of social practice. Rather than a container suitable for description, space becomes part of a process: the process of "inhabiting" enacted by social groups" (68).

The Naked City challenges the structure of the Plan de Paris. The Plan de Paris is structured in a way so as to describe. If the Plan de Paris is structured by description, then a something else structures The Naked City- "spacialized actions," which organize movements symbolically around psychogeographic hubs.

The Naked City doesn't cover all of Paris, as is expected of any "good" map and the geographical fragments have no logical relation to one another (not oriented correctly). This piece is based more on social geography than explaining spatial organization. "Reclus theorized space as a social product and thus as inseparable from the functioning of society" (66).

Space is a social construct and is very subjective. In The Naked City, because there is no spatial orientaion, we have to look at the piece with a different perspective and look at it in terms of society and social practice instead about geography and location.

What was somewhat confusing to me was the parts about capitalist in relation to the article and "spacial confusion" of the city. Also, the part about the postwar period. Discussing this would help me more.