Experience continually tests, revises, and discards learned urban coding associations

Evidence

Through his own experience, the individual not only adds to his knowledge of meanings, he also discovers that while some of his learned associations are fairly accurate, some others require minor modifications, and some are just plain wrong. This process of learning, retaining, modifying, and discarding is lifelong-although under conditions of rapid change there is probably more new learning, modifying, and discarding than there is retaining. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 550

Categorization

• XREF: The lifelong revise-and-discard cycle parallels the reader’s ongoing question of how the flâneur’s learned coding schemes erode through wear.