In neither the preindustrial nor the modern city, then, is the matter of how to act terribly problematic for great numbers of persons. … Rather it is the early industrial city, with the appearential order breaking down and the spatial order only beginning to emerge; it is the early industrial city, with its massive hordes of rural peasants becoming urbanites overnight; it is the early industrial city that is the setting for the massive and explicit teaching of city ways.

XREF: Connects to discussions of urbanization and social disorientation, e.g., Simmel's work on the metropolis and the sociology of cities as places of learning.

DEFINE: Defines the concept of 'city ways' as an explicit, taught skill set that becomes necessary when spatial order hasn't yet replaced the breakdown of apparential order.

Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order a…, loc. 658