The urbane hero is defined by unflappable coolness amid diversity

Evidence

The dominating trait of the urbane hero is his coolness. No matter where he goes in the city (and he goes everywhere), no matter whom he encounters (and he encounters everyone), he is always unft.ustered, at ease, and in command. He is never thrown by diversity, whether it be diversity in the way people look or diversity in the way they behave. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 936

Categorization

• XREF: Presents competence in the world of strangers as total command, the idealized mirror image of the overwhelmed, weaponized-detached self the reader traces in Cole via Simmel and Lofland’s own maps.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 936