Modern urbanites create dispersed villages linking private spaces by car

Evidence

The extent to which modern city dwellers create for themselves dispersed villages is impossible to estimate. Cleveland Amory tells us of one group that has done so: “Generally speaking, so restricted is the Proper Boston Woman’s patronage that to her Boston might well be a town of a few thousand people instead of a city of a million” (Amory, 1950: 113). — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 805

Categorization

• SEED: The Proper Boston Woman as dispersed-village archetype is a vivid contrast case for an essay on how urbanites construct private geographies that defeat the world of strangers.
• XREF: connects to: The automobile’s arrival made the countryside newly accessible to urban American families. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 633