SOCA02H3 Lecture 6: Week 6 Lecture
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Says: the city is a world of strangers simply because everybody cannot know everyone else. Nevertheless, urbanites can and do arrange things such that there are encounters with the personally-unknown when they are out in public are minimized . Their encounters with the personally-known are maximized . People try to take space that"s not their own and treat it as personal content. E. g. in offices, people put family photos, plants, kids" artwork, cartoons. People in public try to privatize space and turn space into something more personalized. Insulating themselves and turning that in private space. What lyn lofland says is that there are three general ways in which people that live in the city transform space into private or semi-private space. Therefore, they personalize their everyday settings that isolate them from other people. Three general ways: creation of home territories.
