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How have sociologists described the effects of modern city life on people's psychic lives? (Simmel, Wirth and Sennett) The dominant modern experience is essentially urban. That is to say, modern experience is largely played out in cities which provide people with a radically different quality of life compared to that of a more rural, traditional existence that is characteristic of small settlements and rural villages. Sociologists such as Simmel and Wirth have cited significant features of city life such as size, density and heterogeneity in an attempt to analyse the character of social relationships attributed to the metropolis and the effects that such features have on the psychic lives of its residents. For the sociologist Goerg Simmel, the metropolis was the crucible of modern life' (Simmel as discussed in Saunders, P. 1986, p.95). In a well-known article, "The Metropolis and Mental Life", Simmel explored the consequences of city life for social interaction...

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