Areal expansion made wholesale spatial segregation of persons and activities possible
Evidence
The crucial aspect of this areal expansion was that it made largescale spatial segregation of activities and persons possible should it be deemed desirable. The preindustrial city might be likened to ~ family of ten living in a single room. All activities and persons, as long as they remained at home, were inevitably piled on top of one another. In the early industrial city, as it were, the family made the first of many moves to a larger house. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 327
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The ten-in-a-room family metaphor directly parallels how urban density forces strangers into acquaintance — the precondition Lofland later shows the industrial city dissolving, connecting to Simmel’s blasé attitude as response to overload.
- DEFINE: Establishes the family-in-a-room image as the defining contrast for preindustrial vs. industrial spatial order.
Related
- Urban spatial expansion enabled large-scale segregation of people and activities. (similarity 0.94)
- Cramped housing pushed preindustrial urbanites into the streets for socializing (similarity 0.82)
- Better housing and dedicated home recreation spaces pulled urban sociability indoors (similarity 0.81)
- Nonspecialized public space necessarily mixed diverse persons together (similarity 0.80)
- Uncomfortable dwellings drove preindustrial urban socializing into public space (similarity 0.80)
- Preindustrial cities pushed ordinary residents’ social life into public streets (similarity 0.80)
- Preindustrial cities’ density limited class-residential segregation (similarity 0.80)
- Preindustrial cities merged work and residence within single dwellings (similarity 0.79)
- Urban self-ordering enabled humans to relate to far larger numbers of others (similarity 0.79)
- Preindustrial city residents encountered social diversity at their own doorstep (similarity 0.79)
- Preindustrial cities segregated activities far less spatially than modern cities (similarity 0.79)
- Urban ordering replaced tribal parochialism with cosmopolitan relating (similarity 0.78)
- Class-based neighborhood segregation predates the modern city (similarity 0.78)
- Modern cities segregate activities spatially far more than preindustrial ones did (similarity 0.78)