Staying home is not a practical or desirable option for most city dwellers

Evidence

The most effective method for minimizing stranger contact would, of course, be to remain at home. But this option is not available to many persons, and by those to whom it is available (for example, young mothers), it is not usually seen as particularly desirable. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1166

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Underscores why anonymous public space is unavoidable and thereby why the observing self is produced — feeds the reader’s central argument.

Related

• Staying home is the ultimate privacy strategy but rarely viable or desired (similarity 0.90)
• Urbanites symbolically transform public space into private space to reduce stranger contact (similarity 0.79)