Spatial segregation gives the affluent more access to both private and public space.

Evidence

The peculiarly middle class character of urban spatial segregation is attested to by the ironic fact that those with greater access to private recreational space also are likely to have greater access to public recreational space. (The elites, of course, have little need for such facilities as public parks. Their resources enable them to build their own private “parks,” and to use the entire world as a playground.) Thus, it is in the most densely packed and economically deprived sections of a modern city that we can still see the kind of public-space activity pile-up so characteristic of the preindustrial urban settlement. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1129

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s question of who gets to inhabit public space as observer vs. observed—affluence buys withdrawal or free movement, linking to why the blasé flâneur is a classed position.