Urban history trends from appearance-based to location-based ordering
Evidence
The trend of urban history, I am suggesting, is away from appearential ordering and toward spatial ordering. The preindustrial city, characterized by mixed public space use and overt heterogeneity of populace, is the site of the dominance of appearential ordering. The modern city, with its specialized space use and masked heterogeneity of populace, is the site of the dominance of spatial ordering. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 144
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Directly supports the reader’s cross-read: Simmel’s blasé attitude as cognitive defense maps onto the modern dominance of spatial ordering.
Related
- Cities historically shifted from appearance-based to location-based stranger identification (similarity 0.92)
- Urban history shifts identity-reading from appearance cues to location cues (similarity 0.90)
- Urban identification shifted from appearance clues to spatial location (similarity 0.90)
- Preindustrial cities relied primarily on appearance with spatial segregation as a secondary cue (similarity 0.88)
- Cheap mass-produced clothing enabled the modern city’s masked heterogeneity. (similarity 0.84)
- Preindustrial urban heterogeneity differed by being overtly displayed, not by existing (similarity 0.83)
- Preindustrial urban diversity looks like disorder only because its ordering principle differs (similarity 0.83)
- Neither spatial nor appearential ordering wholly replaces the other across eras (similarity 0.82)
- Preindustrial public space only looks disordered because its ordering principle differs from ours (similarity 0.82)
- The appearential-to-spatial shift intertwined with many concurrent urban transformations (similarity 0.82)
- The early industrial city uniquely required explicit teaching of urban manners (similarity 0.82)
- Urban spatial ordering only enables stranger identification, never guarantees it (similarity 0.81)
- Preindustrial cities made social differences visually overt and legible (similarity 0.81)
- Urban spatial-ordering changes were intertwined with the industrial and political revolutions. (similarity 0.81)
- Social order makes the urban world of strangers bearable by predicting identities. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Industrialization shifted urban stranger-identification from dress to location
#expands(0.85) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 300 - Preindustrial cities relied primarily on appearance with spatial segregation as a secondary cue
#corroborates(0.80) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 261 - Industrial urbanization destroyed appearance as a reliable clue to strangers’ identities
#expands(0.80) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 351 - Spatial ordering dominated but never wholly replaced appearential order
#qualifies(0.75) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 304 - Preindustrial urbanites signaled their identity through visible costuming
#corroborates(0.70) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 236 - Preindustrial urban heterogeneity differed by being overtly displayed, not by existing
#corroborates(0.60) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 235 - Preindustrial cities share mixed space use and overt heterogeneity
#corroborates(0.60) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 154 - Urban spatial reordering co-occurred within industrialization’s broad convulsive changes
#corroborates(0.55) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 303 - Modern urbanites defuse situational ignorance by avoiding unprepared places
#complicates(0.55) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 653 - Sumptuary laws and hair rules publicly encoded class rank in preindustrial cities
#exemplifies(0.50) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 241