Navigating urban life ultimately depends on self-knowledge, not location knowledge

Evidence

What I am saying then is simply this. Once the individual has learned to code urban locations, once he knows who and what to expect in them, he does not require any further instructions on this topic to make his way through the world of stangers. What he re- quires, rather, is knowledge of himself. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 640

Categorization

• DEFINE: Ties the chapter’s map of stranger-coding together: competence shifts from decoding spaces to knowing oneself.
• XREF: Feeds the reader’s core purpose: the unmoored, unreliable observer fails not for lack of spatial skill but for lack of self-anchoring. — connects to: Psychic well-being fundamentally depends on the existence of public space — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1503; Survival in unfamiliar environments requires local ecological knowledge, not just provisions — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 120