Preindustrial urban life mixed private activities into public streets

Evidence

The Spatial Integration of Activities. In the preindustrial city, many human activities that we moderns think of as more appropriately housed in private or semiprivate space often occurred in public. Educating the young was one such activity. In ancient Rome, for example, primary school was typically conducted on the street, “under the awning outside some shop and invaded by all the noises of the street from which only a screen or tent cloth separated it” (Carcopino, 1940:105). — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 175

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Existing zoning regulated streets and lot shape, not environmental harms — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 1053