Guidebooks teach city dwellers how to read urban locations.

Evidence

Television, motion pictures, and radio all play their part in teaching urbanites how to code various locations. So do those little-appreciated artifacts-guide· books. Supposedly designed for visitors and tourists, they nevertheless turn up in the hands of city dwellers-newcomers and oldtimers alike. When read and interpreted carefully, they offer detailed insights into the appropriate meanings of this or that place, area, or city. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 594

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s larger project on how urbanites learn to categorize strangers and spaces via Lofland’s own framework.