Preindustrial city streets served as venues for activities modern cities segregate into specialized spaces

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Preindustrial cities share mixed space use and overt heterogeneity; Education once occurred in public streets rather than private buildings; Preindustrial city streets teemed with refuse, excrement, and scavenging animals (+9 more)

Related

• Jumbled urban space forced preindustrial dwellers to confront social diversity daily (similarity 0.87)
• Preindustrial cities segregated activities far less spatially than modern cities (similarity 0.84)
• Preindustrial cities pushed ordinary residents’ social life into public streets (similarity 0.84)
• Preindustrial urban life mixed private activities into public streets (similarity 0.83)
• Cramped housing pushed preindustrial urbanites into the streets for socializing (similarity 0.83)
• Preindustrial cities share mixed space use and overt heterogeneity (similarity 0.83)
• Modern cities segregate activities spatially far more than preindustrial ones did (similarity 0.82)
• Preindustrial cities’ density limited class-residential segregation (similarity 0.82)
• Preindustrial cities were overtly and visibly socially heterogeneous (similarity 0.82)
• Preindustrial cities relied primarily on appearance with spatial segregation as a secondary cue (similarity 0.81)
• Walking dominated preindustrial urban life because communication and supplies required physical presence (similarity 0.81)
• Preindustrial city streets displayed suffering and mutilation at levels incomprehensible to moderns (similarity 0.81)
• Learning in preindustrial cities routinely spilled into public streets rather than walls (similarity 0.80)
• Preindustrial streets were lived-in social spaces used around the clock (similarity 0.80)
• Industrial modernity rendered the city aesthetically unrepresentable. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity #expands (0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 247
• Jumbled urban space forced preindustrial dwellers to confront social diversity daily #expands (0.70)
• Preindustrial urban heterogeneity differed by being overtly displayed, not by existing #expands (0.60)
• Preindustrial urbanites signaled their identity through visible costuming #expands (0.55)
• Preindustrial city streets displayed suffering and mutilation at levels incomprehensible to moderns #expands (0.50)
• Preindustrial cities relied primarily on appearance with spatial segregation as a secondary cue #expands (0.45)