The Impact of Urban Space on Urban Social Interactions.

Seeing social interactions within cities in depth is of great significance since they typically put together various cultural values. The relationship between different people is significantly influenced by areas identified as urban. Together with other forms of diversity, cities serve as hubs of power for economic relationships as new people, commodities, and ideas circulate across the cities consistently. As a result, individuals living in urban environments need to counter new factors that contribute to the achievement of cultures that appear dominant.
In limited spaces where resources end up being scarce due to high population, economic challenges along with power dynamics are greatly strained. Life in urban has been seen to change the mind of a person irreversibly. Cities can be taken in numerous perspectives with one emphasising on material constructs such as roads and buildings referred to as built environment and the other emphasising on social aspects such as cultures and hierarchies in politics referred to as urbanism. Sociology concerned with space can be termed as a sub-discipline in sociology that put a focus on spatiality within the society. Both the urbanism and built environment are assumed to have a significant effect on each other. Through the building of minimal units of housing, the price for rent will significantly rise, and workforce in the service sector will not make it dwelling within the city. As a result of this relationship, cities primarily require urban research and planning. There is a need to consider the way in which streets and buildings will be laid to allow movement of people. People will tend to look for housing far away from the town which will strain the system for transport necessitating its expansion.

It can be argued that social life in cities is affected negatively as a result of social over-stimulation due to a heterogeneous, dense and large population. Other contributing factors include spatial under-stimulations leading to cities being meaningless, dull and lacking necessary spaces.This has driven the need to have elaborated policies for urban interventions that will be based on high comprehension concerning the way things need to be done. By having knowledge on why and how people ended being unhoused, there will be guidance concerning efforts to be taken to tackle such challenge.

The social structure in urban areas is different as compared with one in rural areas affecting the kind of social interactions. A good example is that those who dwell in urban areas are likely to meet various strangers even if it is through passing only. In contrast, those who live in rural areas are likely to meet with people who are and look familiar. Through contact with the strangers, there are significant changes in how those who live in urban areas think about casual interactions, personal space and intimacy. To be specific, those who dwell in cities could become suspicious concerning the passersby while those living in rural areas could confidently greet them. Many parts of the towns have become anonymous with residents enduring difficult conditions like relations among neighbours being damaged, deteriorated cohesiveness in the society together with flared tensions among the residents (Spradley, 2016).

Social sciences show the need for labour division as people will achieve more by giving each a different task to concentrate on instead of each performing a different task. Division of labour has however been weighed down with various social status with some tasks taken to be of high status and others taken to be of low status. Cities need sophisticated labour divisions due to dense population, existing labour divisions between rural and city countryside, current labour divisions between trade partners and city, and stratification basing itself on political power in the towns. Slums do not exist on similar infrastructure but play a significant role in labour provision. Jobs in cities carry high prestige level, and people working in different prestige levels do not dwell in the same areas.

Work Cited

Spradley, James P. Participant observation. Waveland Press, 2016.