ABSTRACT
OUR TASK IS TO STUDY and understand the modern community and its way of life. In this opening chapter our attention is directed to a brief examination of modern community life. It is centered in the great cities and it is oriented to industry. It is often referred to as Western, and as a way of life is called urbanism. It is found in its most characteristic form in the United States, but tends to be present wherever a good share of a people live by industry and commerce and, concomitantly, at a tempo which is peculiar to urbanism.
