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I'm reading a book about the use of streets in antiquity, and it compares usage to environments in the 20th century and developing countries today and just... this level of socialization with strangers on the street is foreign to me.
We lose something in making streets movement-oriented instead of truly public.
Yeah, the "third place" that everyone talks about literally used to just be outside. You'd just walk out your door and start interacting with everybody else who did the same.