Urban order arising from any source makes social life predictable and bearable

Evidence

The order which is found in human life may be created in a variety of ways. It may emerge through a series of mutual agreements and understandings. It may be imposed on the majority by a small group with a corner on power. It may simply develop without special intent on anyone’s part. Or it may arise out of some combination of agreement, coercion, and “accident.” However it is created, once in operation, order functions to make life relatively predictable and thus, in some senses, bearable. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 260

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 260
• XREF: connects to: Metropolitan complexity forces exact punctuality to prevent social collapse — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 751; Urban exactitude suppresses irrational, instinctive, sovereign impulses — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 751; Jumbled urban space forced preindustrial dwellers to confront social diversity daily (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Knowledge of social life does not produce greater control over fate #complicates (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 111
• Residents’ private claiming of public spaces both reinforces and subverts urban spatial order #complicates (0.60)
• Urbanites actively reinforce the spatial order rather than passively accept it #complicates (0.55)