Clearly, the New Town was from the very beginning ahighly complex and highly political socialconstruction. Numerous planners, mapmakers,architects, land surveyors, politicians andhistorians joined in a kind of cartographicconversation about the city's shape and development,but not all could contribute with the sameauthority. The planning process involved differentrepresentations, practices and agencies, but thecity's professional and landowning classes retainedoverall power. As the previous chapter showed, theearly New Town outline was shaped and routinelyrerouted when it conflicted with Edinburgh elites’alternative cartographies. All this can beprofitably construed in the Lefebvrian terms of ‘theproduction of space’. The Marxist philosopher HenriLefebvre argued that every society produces its ownspace and that the dominant power in society assumesa commanding role in this social production of spacein order to maintain and reproduce its dominance.Certain professional ‘specialists of space’, such asarchitects and planners, have a role to play inthis, but their role is conditioned by theirrelationship with the social elites. This chapterdevelops this line of analysis by focusing on theproduction ofLefebvrian specialists of space during theproduction of Edinburgh's New Town. It looks at howthese specialists’ social roles were determined, howtheir professional identities were formed, theconditions of their contribution to the planningprocess and how their activities were rewarded (ornot). The following analysis highlights thedifferent statuses of the various mapmakers andothers who were involved in portraying andnegotiating the New Town's spatial form. It looks atarchitects, historians, ‘geographers’ and especiallycommercial mapmakers who played a crucial role instabilising and disseminating a certainrepresentation of the planned city. It explorestheir role in producing the numerous repetitions,reprints, subtle updates and combinations ofexisting plans of the city until a relativelyinflexible one emerged, albeit one that took on thedifficult job of combining the Old (the existingcity and its history, namely the Old Town ofEdinburgh), the New (the newly built portions of NewTown) and the Soon (the future city that existedonly on the map).