Mixed neighborhoods foster simultaneous thinking while homogeneous ones enforce conformity

Evidence

Mixed neighborhoods create public simultaneous thinking, many perspectives converging on the same moment at the same time, in front of each other. Many languages, many cultures, many racial and class experiences take place on the same block, in the same buildings. Homogenous neighborhoods erase this dynamic, and are much more vulnerable to enforcement of conformity. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 515

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s trees-as-infrastructure piece via the idea that heterogeneity and mixture build resilience, and to communication-theory readings on plurality vs. conformity. — connects to: Value pluralism drives cognitively complex political thinking; Bicultural people develop the habit of resolving competing perspectives integratively; Living in ethnically diverse neighborhoods raises cognitive identity complexity — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 549 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Value pluralism drives cognitively complex political thinking; Bicultural people develop the habit of resolving competing perspectives integratively; Living in ethnically diverse neighborhoods raises cognitive identity complexity — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 549 (+7 more)