when people say, it's all about relationships, I often think, What is the City but the People with whom you don't have relationships? -- or, a place relatively full of and comparatively open to, even welcoming of and honoring these others? c/ @mattkahn1966 https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/1374757701503217667

this view derives from 3 foundational & fav works:
1. Simmel "The Metropolis and Mental Life" 1903 https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/bpl_images/content_store/sample_chapter/0631225137/bridge.pdf &
2. #RobertPark "Human Migration and the Marginal Man" 1928 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eo0HX1A5A1heLMIzz3tUbYamYI0Itf3F/view?usp=drivesdk
3. #LouisWirth "Urbanism as A Way of Life" 1938 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eo0HX1A5A1heLMIzz3tUbYamYI0Itf3F/view?usp=drivesdk

@cherring_soc other of my key sources, from older & less marginal sociological concepts of marginality: https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/1385387609262678020?s=21, following on this thread perennially lost in the wilderness: https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/1384973534506668037?s=20 in case you're ever in my City to discuss it. c/ @RoofLesser