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Street sociability [ Cities ]
… of the everyday; and where beggars cried for attention. The street was the club that admitted everyone. While the coffeehouse and the salon have exercised modern historians as the all-important sites of sociability, eighteenth-century … perspectives. In the work of Jürgen Habermas, the streets are largely absent. They sit beyond the walls of the coffeehouses and salons, where the newspapers were read and discussed by groups of self-selecting and socially uniform … and Genteel Behaviour ... (1740), p. 1-5. The streets did not provide a locale for the easy social interaction of the coffeehouse or drawing room. The streets did not allow for a sociability of sameness – though the royal parks and gay …
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