The appearential-to-spatial shift intertwined with many concurrent urban transformations

Evidence

In these brief pages, I have been discussing a period in human history that is perhaps unmatched in the enormity and complexity of its transformations. It is a period that has been studied, analyzed, and written about again and again. 16 Truly to understand the transformation from appearential to spatial ordering would require a detailed analysis of all the concurrent and related transformations. Such a study would fill at least one hefty volume, if not more. My aims for this chapter, then, have necessarily been modest. My intent has been merely to suggest some of the factors that may help to account for the emergence of that type of urban public order which dominates the modern city. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 349

Categorization

• XREF: Self-acknowledged modesty signals where Lofland’s suggestive account needs supplementing by richer period treatments, e.g., the German-led analysis of rationalization familiar from Frankfurt School readings.