Residents of public places are either paid employees or avocational colonizers

Evidence

Becoming a resident is a time-consuming process. It requires that the individual hang about some public space for long and regular periods. Dropping in now and then may do for the customer, stopping by briefly three times a week may do for the patron, but becoming and remaining a resident is almost a full-time job. In fact, for some people, it is a full-time job and they constitute one type of resident: the public space employee. The other type of resident achieves his status avocationally rather than vocationally; these are the colonizers. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 716

Categorization

• DEFINE: Colonizer/employee distinction frames the home-territory taxonomy of urban space.