Urbanization: Small Towns Vs Urban Environments

Urban versus Small Towns
Due to the rapid growth of urbanization, a massive gap has been created between urban environments and small towns. These communities have distinct features which measure their own kind of uniqueness, their own set of attributes, how they shape human relations and cultures, as well as the amount of freedom people living in the communities have. Urban environments and small towns differentiate from one another in three main aspects which are in their numbers, density, and heterogeneity (Wirth, 1969). Urban environments have various cultures and create more relations within the people that is due to the urban areas size and diversity and the fact that they are less restrictive, therefore providing more freedom for individuals. …show more content…
Small communities restrain and provide certain types of relationships and norms for individuals. As suggested by Louis Wirth, large numbers in cities and density creates conditions for much greater diversity (1969). Moreover, there is a constant engagement within the people in cities. Yet, this leads to more individualism and less bonding as well as a higher instrumental reasoning (Nicholls, Lec.