ABSTRACT
The larger proportion of women to men in the cities than in the open country, the greater percentage of youth and middle-aged, the higher ratio of the foreign-born, the increased heterogeneity of occupation increase with the growth of the city and profoundly alter its social structure. The surveys made by the Bell Telephone Company and other public utilities have attempted to forecast the direction and the rate of growth of the city in order to anticipate the future demands for the extension of their services. Expansion deals with the physical growth of the city, and with the extension of the technical services that have made city life not only livable, but comfortable, even luxurious. The division of labor in the city likewise illustrates disorganization, reorganization and increasing differentiation. The mobility of city life, with its increase in the number and intensity of stimulations, tends inevitably to confuse and to demoralize the person.
