Drivers can route through the city while almost never entering public space

Evidence

What I am suggesting here is that the urbanite, by using the automobile, can guide himself about the city, can restrict his routing about the city, in such a way that he almost never has to enter any truly public space. He can go from his home to the homes of his friends, from his home to his place of work, from his place of work to a home territory, from a home territory back to where he lives; and he can do all this without ever encountering for more than a few brief seconds the world of strangers. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 803

What I am suggesting here is that the urbanite, by using the automobile, can guide himself about the city, can restrict his routing about the city, in such a way that he almost never has to enter any truly public space. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 803

Categorization

• XREF: This is the techno-spatial mechanism that produces the privatized, non-interactive urban passage the reading purpose analyzes as the limit of civil inattention.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 803