A theoretical framework for the analysis of urban problems

Urbanization and the related industrial or technological forces that accompany it are often referred to as major sources of disruption in Western society. While there is some truth in this judgment, it is not the city or metropolis as such, any more than it is technology, that, directly causes such problems as racial tensions, crime, or poverty. Problems such as these are aberrations of a process that on the whole

Produces more in the way of stable and constructive changes than the reverse. Inherently, there is no more reason for urbanism to be associated with social disorganization or personal pathologies than there is for rural life. Studies have concluded that rural environments are as prone to manifestation of social and personal disorganization as are cities and metropolis.