Preindustrial cities mixed rich and poor dwellings within single quarters

Evidence

In tenth and eleventh century Constantinople, “in every quarter, palaces and monasteries, shops and slums had grown up side by side” (Runciman, 1952:67), and in Paris of the -seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: There was little distinction between the richer and the poorer quarters. Obviously the houses of the rich were more numerous in some parts of town than in others, but even in the noblest mansions, although the principal floor would be occupied by the wealthy, it was usual for the upper floors to be divided up and let out to the families of artisans. (Chastenet, And a Chinese working woman, telling of her life in the city of P’englai in the late 1890s informs us matter-of-factly that “the house in which my master [a rich civil official] lived was in the north of the city near the North Gate. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 226

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Corporate accumulation turns inhabited places into zoned Nowheres where residence is lost for generations — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 448