ABSTRACT
If the study of cities and urban areas can be likened to a house, we know a great deal more about where they are located and the manner of their construction than we do about the lives of the people who occupy them. People in cities and larger urban areas have not been left unstudied. At least in developed societies such as the United States and countries in Western Europe, we have good counts of them. We can tell you a great deal about their age, the kind of jobs they hold, how much schooling they have had, and from where they or their ancestors came. We also can paint a pretty convincing picture of what they are thinking about at any given moment, their associations, and how they might act under different circumstances.
