Homeless street-dwellers must perform legitimacy by acting as if the place were public.

Evidence

In each of these instances, the individual, lacking the tacit approval of those in charge, was required to act in such a way as to suggest that his use of the setting was a legitimate one-he was required to act, in effect, as if he were in a public place. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 747

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s core thread: the performing-, acting-, as-if framing of urban public life is precisely the civil-inattention masquerade that Cole tests in Julius, and parallels the front-stage/back-stage theatricality that ties to Goffman.
• DEEPTHINKING: The inversion — one must ACT as if in a public place in order to legitimately be in one — collapses the assumed distinction between private legitimacy and public anonymity; worth sitting with in relation to the reader’s anonymity thesis.