Activities once public have moved into private or semiprivate quarters

Evidence

A good deal of what went on in the public space of the preindustrial city has simply disappeared from the public space of the modern city. It has moved into private or semiprivate quarters. Educating the young is now thought to be an activity requiring isolation and relative quiet and is largely relegated to buildings in which no other doings are permitted. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 358

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated cross-reading: this privatization of activity is the structural backdrop for the modern observer’s detachment — fewer shared public activities means less grounded participation for Julius-style flâneurs.