Jumbled urban space forced preindustrial dwellers to confront social diversity daily

Evidence

Much the same can be said of the local community. We should avoid the romanticised view of community which has often surfaced in social analysis when traditional cultures are compared to the modern. I mean here to stress the importance of localised relations organised in terms of place, where place has not yet become transformed by distanciated time-space relations. In the large majority of pre-modern settings, including most cities, the local milieu is the site of clusters of interweaving social relations, the low spatial span of which provides for their solidity in time. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 247 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The order which is found in human life may be created in a variety of ways. It may emerge through a series of mutual agreements and understandings. It may be imposed on the majority by a small group with a corner on power. It may simply develop without special intent on anyone’s part. Or it may arise out of some combination of agreement, coercion, and “accident.” However it is created, once in operation, order functions to make life relatively predictable and thus, in some senses, bearable. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 260 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Preindustrial cities share mixed space use and overt heterogeneity; Unemployed floating populations fueled preindustrial urban riots; Cramped housing pushed preindustrial urbanites into the streets for socializing (+6 more)

Related

• Preindustrial city streets served as venues for activities modern cities segregate into specialized spaces (similarity 0.87)
• Cramped housing pushed preindustrial urbanites into the streets for socializing (similarity 0.85)
• Urban order arising from any source makes social life predictable and bearable (similarity 0.84)
• Unemployed floating populations fueled preindustrial urban riots (similarity 0.83)
• Preindustrial urban diversity looks like disorder only because its ordering principle differs (similarity 0.83)
• Industrialized society eliminates floating street populations by absorbing people into organized work (similarity 0.83)
• Preindustrial cities harbored large rootless populations that hung about the edges of crowds (similarity 0.82)
• Preindustrial city residents encountered social diversity at their own doorstep (similarity 0.82)
• Preindustrial cities pushed ordinary residents’ social life into public streets (similarity 0.81)
• Modern cities exceed preindustrial ones in population heterogeneity (similarity 0.81)
• Preindustrial public space only looks disordered because its ordering principle differs from ours (similarity 0.80)
• Walking dominated preindustrial urban life because communication and supplies required physical presence (similarity 0.80)
• Preindustrial cities were overtly and visibly socially heterogeneous (similarity 0.80)
• Urban history trends from appearance-based to location-based ordering (similarity 0.80)
• Uncomfortable dwellings drove preindustrial urban socializing into public space (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity #complicates (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 247
• Urban order arising from any source makes social life predictable and bearable #expands (0.35) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 260