Dispersed-village dwellers know streets only as auto corridors to private spaces

Evidence

It is, of course, true that any urbanite who owns and drives an automobile about the city develops this kind of knowledge. What is peculiar about the inhabitants of dispersed villages is the exclusivity of this sort of knowledge. When asked about public space generally, they reply only in terms of city streets which are traversed by automobile and which provide access to the various little private and semiprivate spaces that make up their world. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 810

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to Cole’s flâneur who knows the city by wandering — contrast the car-based dispersed-village knowledge with the pedestrian observer’s spatial intimacy.