Repeated public-space encounters convert strangers into personally known acquaintances

Evidence

When these conventional encounters occur repeatedly in a single public locale, they become part of the process by which the individual establishes a patron or, even, a colonizer relationship to the locale. But even when they are not part of this process, they are one of the mechanisms by which total strangers are transformed into personally-known others. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 992

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: ‘Patron/colonizer’ tie to the locale parallels how the flâneur’s habitual route accumulates place memories—connects to the reader’s urban-wandering interest.

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• Repeated casual encounters gradually convert total strangers into known individuals (similarity 0.93)
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