ABSTRACT
With the coming of the Industrial Revolution around the turn of the nineteenth century, momentous changes took place that significantly changed the size, density, structure, and composition of cities. This chapter examines some ideal types of communities in terms of relevancy in the study of urbanization and processes of urbanism. It focuses on the ideal type as it conceived of changes in interpersonal relationships, with particular emphasis on personal, family, and work relationships, and community involvements. Organic solidarity is basic to a society that is undergoing social change associated with rapid growth of the population, increased size and diversity, ease and rapidity of communication, and increasing specialization and division of labor. For Georg Simmel, the metropolitan personality was a product of both the characteristics of the physical structure of the city and the economic characteristics of the society that consisted of its money economy and its specialized division of labor. Money becomes the measure of all things, including people.
