public space order’s origins are independent of its psychological uses

Evidence

This fact does not, of course, gainsay its value to all preindustrial city dwellers in making their world knowable and thus livable. As we shall have occasion to note again, the interests and forces which create or maintain a given public space order seem quite independent from the social psychological use to which that order, once created, is put. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1103

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• QUESTION: A productive ambiguity worth chasing: if an order is created by elite interests yet functions socially for all, what happens when those functions diverge — the seed of civil inattention’s psychic cost.

Related

• The origins of public space order are independent of its later social uses (similarity 0.95)
• Urban ordering likely arose independent of any psychological need for it (similarity 0.85)
• Industrial-era disorder itself spawned the modern city’s new order. (similarity 0.80)
• Social order makes the urban world of strangers bearable by predicting identities. (similarity 0.80)
• Urban spatial ordering only enables stranger identification, never guarantees it (similarity 0.79)
• Urban self-ordering enabled humans to relate to far larger numbers of others (similarity 0.79)
• Preindustrial public space only looks disordered because its ordering principle differs from ours (similarity 0.79)
• Urban order arising from any source makes social life predictable and bearable (similarity 0.79)
• Urban ordering replaced tribal parochialism with cosmopolitan relating (similarity 0.78)
• Urban spatial-ordering changes were intertwined with the industrial and political revolutions. (similarity 0.78)