The urban setting itself lends residents an elevated sense of self

Evidence

Again, especially in New York City because that is the epitome of an urban area, there’s something about, to me, walking down the street and buying theater tickets or you know doing anything that makes me feel very sophisticated or very worldly. Simply because it’s New York City and it can give you that feeling… . But that’s a very exhilarating feeling for me … to feel very sophisticated. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 971

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Simmel’s metropolitan self-fashioning and the sensory self Cole tracks through Julius’s New York wanderings. — connects to: Impersonality in urban modernity is a positive achievement, not a loss. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2196