Simmel’s city analysis applies to pre-modern large settlements too.

Evidence

Simmel’s comments on the rapidly expanding cities of the nineteenth century are equally apropos of large settlements of earlier eras, excepting, of course, his references to transportation. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1082

Categorization

• XREF: Signals that urban anonymity as a phenomenon predates modernity — relevant to the reader’s linking of Cole’s wandering to a trans-historical condition. — connects to: Simmel defined modern life by accelerated tempo across city, intellect, and fashion. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 205