Residents may help to make such assumptions tenable relative to all sorts of public space. The resident is, after all, on home ground and the integrity of a human's home is rarely violated with impunity. … You can take a midnight stroll through Bhendi Bazaar [in Bombay] without any fear. Sidewalk dwellers sleeping on their rickety rope cots will guarantee your safety from hoodlums.

XREF: Ties to Jane Jacobs' 'eyes on the street' concept and broken-windows theories of neighborhood safety.

XREF: Connects to Jane Jacobs' 'eyes on the street' theory of informal social control and safety through occupation.

Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order a…, loc. 772