The origins of public space order are independent of its later social uses

Evidence

This fact does not, of course, gainsay its value to all preindustrial city dwellers in making their world knowable and thus livable. As we shall have occasion to note again, the interests and forces which create or maintain a given public space order seem quite independent from the social psychological use to which that order, once created, is put. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1103

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s cross-reading: the mechanisms creating a public-space order (elite displays, coercion) need not match what ordinary observers use that order for psychologically.