Some expert urbanites adventure into stranger-filled space rather than avoid it.

Evidence

Chapter Eight, in contrast, is concerned not with avoiding, but with adventuring; not with escape, but with excitement. Here we shall be watching the Phi Beta Kappas of urban learning as they use their knowledge and skills to confront the world of strangers head-on and to engage, in the midst of this world, in some conventional and some not-soconventional fun and games. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 17