"Urbanism As A Way Of Life" by Wirth

    Louis Wirth, contrasts "the urban" with "the rural". He views the city as being heterogenous individuals. Heterogenous, as in being different in kind; the studies of the differences between the rural and Urban mode of living. He states an important factor of the article in which how the shift from a rural to a urban society, which has taken place within the span of a single generation in such industrialized areas as the United States, and Japan, has been accompanied by profound changes in virtually every phase of social life. He states how "It is these changes and their ramifications that invite the attention of the sociologist to the study of the differences between the rural and the urban mode of living" (102). Urbanization is a mode of life containing all of the people's need such as transportation, metropolitan centers, theaters, libraries, museums, etc. All people; with different cultures, and ethnic groups who all enjoy the same qualities and needs.