Groups behave like residents and take over public space with abandon

Evidence

Members of groups, in fact, tend to exhibit behavior similar to that of residents. They use public space with abandon, in such a way that, for example, a group of adolescents can choose to play running games in an air terminal. They feel free to indulge in backstage behavior, calling each other by name, yelling at one another across the expanse of the setting, using obscene language and laughing loudly at private jokes. And they express proprietary attitudes. If their numbers are plentiful enough, they may even force others to depart, as when the overflow from a convention invades a city’s nightspots. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 826

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Shows the collective route to privatizing public space, contrasted with the loner’s route—setting up the Lofland/Simmel contrast the reader is tracking.

Related

• Residents’ private claiming of public spaces both reinforces and subverts urban spatial order (similarity 0.81)
• Urban space residents’ behaviors vary by employment status and group approval (similarity 0.81)
• How fully urban residents claim space depends on role and group support (similarity 0.79)
• Cramped housing pushed preindustrial urbanites into the streets for socializing (similarity 0.78)
• Urbanites symbolically transform public space into private space to reduce stranger contact (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Residents’ private claiming of public spaces both reinforces and subverts urban spatial order #expands (0.80) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 774
• Residents’ proprietary attitudes toward public places can deter crime there #qualifies (0.70) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 772