Entering a neighbor’s home transforms an abstract view into palpable reality

Evidence

One day Paul invited us over for dinner. Because I hadn’t been in a neighbor’s home since I was a teenager, it was unexpectedly surreal to be inside the house that forms a permanent part of the view from our apartment. The interior of the house went from being an idea to a palpable reality. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 463

Categorization

• SEED: Personal anecdote illustrates how physical proximity plus invitation converts strangers into known people — grounds the privilege critique (this requires the willingness and occasion to bridge).
• XREF: connects to: Expansions of attention from knowing neighbors are irreversible once felt — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 464; Growing familiarity transforms urban public space into semiprivate home territory; City dwellers transform public spaces into private home territories to manage urban complexity — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 710 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Expansions of attention from knowing neighbors are irreversible once felt — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 464; Growing familiarity transforms urban public space into semiprivate home territory; City dwellers transform public spaces into private home territories to manage urban complexity — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 710 (+1 more)