City-raised people may navigate urban spaces more skillfully than newcomers

Evidence

This suggests that those humans reared in the city may have a “head start” on their country-cousins-turned-urbanites. It would be interesting to learn if the former-as a group-are generally more knowledgeable about, and more skillful in, their urban environment than the latter. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1151

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the reader’s interest in how the observer acquires urban competence; connects to Coleman’s social capital and skill-acquisition themes in the broader reading.
• QUESTION: An empirical question explicitly left open — could seed a search on differential urban navigational skill.