Walking dominated preindustrial urban life because communication and supplies required physical presence

Evidence

Much the same can be said of the local community. We should avoid the romanticised view of community which has often surfaced in social analysis when traditional cultures are compared to the modern. I mean here to stress the importance of localised relations organised in terms of place, where place has not yet become transformed by distanciated time-space relations. In the large majority of pre-modern settings, including most cities, the local milieu is the site of clusters of interweaving social relations, the low spatial span of which provides for their solidity in time. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 247 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Low literacy forced preindustrial cities to make streets the news medium — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 196; Walking as necessity was killed by multiple technologies, not just the automobile; Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 247

Related

• Face-to-face walking was the only communication medium in preindustrial cities (similarity 0.83)
• Preindustrial city streets served as venues for activities modern cities segregate into specialized spaces (similarity 0.81)
• Jumbled urban space forced preindustrial dwellers to confront social diversity daily (similarity 0.80)
• Pre-telegraph urban communication required physical walking to deliver messages (similarity 0.80)
• Walking as necessity was killed by multiple technologies, not just the automobile (similarity 0.79)
• Preindustrial cities pushed ordinary residents’ social life into public streets (similarity 0.79)
• Low literacy forced preindustrial cities to make streets the news medium (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity #corroborates (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 247
• Walking as necessity was killed by multiple technologies, not just the automobile #corroborates (0.65)