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Place, Space and Imagination: Reviewing the Renaissance City c. 1420-1520
Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Oxford: Blackwell (1991), esp. pp. 1-67 [Chapter 1]
Michel de Certeau, 'Walking in the City', in The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press (1984), pp. 91-110 [Chapter 7]
Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: the Nature of Religion, transl. From French by Willard R. Trask, New York and London 1959 [first published 1956 chap. 1 on 'Sacred space and Making the world Sacred']
Marvin Trachtenberg, 'Framing and Grounding Urbanism in Theory and the Arts', in Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997), pp. 149-243 [Chapter 4]
R. Trexler, 'Ritual Behavior in Renaissance Florence: the Setting' in Medievalia et Humanistica n.s. 4, 1973, pp. 125-44
Or Richard C. Trexler, 'The Ritual of Celebration', in Public Life in Renaissance Florence, 2nd Edition, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press (1991), pp. 215-278, [Chapter 8]
Sharon T. Strocchia, 'Theaters of Everyday Life', in Roger J. Crum & John T. Paoletti (eds), Renaissance Florence: A Social History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2006), pp. 55-80 (and other articles in this volume esp. Gaston)
E. Muir and R.F.E. Weissman, 'Social and Symbolic places in Renaissance Venice and Florence' in eds. J.A. Agnew and J.S. Duncan, The Power of Place: Bringing together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations, Boston 1989
Margaret Iversen, 'The Discourse of Perspective in the Twentieth Century:
Panofsky, Damisch, Lacan', Oxford Art Journal, 28, no. 2 (2005), 191-202
You might also want to dip into:
P. Hubbard and R. Kitchin, Key Thinkers on Place and Space, London 2004 (and subsequent editions)