Preindustrial streets were lived-in social spaces used around the clock

Evidence

The people spend a great part of their time in the streets, or so it seems to the traveler. All day long and far into the night, and especially in the early evening, the streets are full of people, sitting and standing about, and, for the most part, talking, eating or preparing to eat. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 212

Categorization

• XREF: Direct inverse of the modern urban public space that Cole and Simmel describe - the street as hospitality venue rather than thoroughfare of civil inattention.
• SEED: Article angle: how the street shifted from ‘social living room’ to ‘transit corridor’ and what that did to stranger interaction.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the ‘On Sacrifice’ piece’s treatment of public festivity - preindustrial communal space was the stage for collective ritual and social bonding.