Government edicts taught early urbanites how to behave toward new public spaces.

Evidence

In 1643, the House of Commons ordered “that the officers and soldiers at the courts of guard be required not to permit any to cut down trees or wood in Hyde Park, and not to suffer any such persons as go out to the works to cut wood in the park, or to bring any from thence but by warrant from the committee appointed for that ordinance.” … Again, it was ordered “that no soldier or other person whatsoever, shall presume to pull down or take away any of the pales belonging to the said Park, nor kill or destroy any deer therein, nor cut, sell or carry away any wood growing in or about the said Park or mounds thereof, etc.” — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 652

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows that even conduct toward physical park objects was socially taught, not natural, illustrating the broader point about learned urban behavior.