Question

five features of urban areas?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

Urban areas have more industries due to increased population the pollution increses

The people in this areas can easily get jobs

They know multiple languages

The equality and unity is very strong in urban areas

The people in this area work in big company

Answer 2

Answer:

Some of the most important characteristics of urban community are as follows: 1. Large size and high density of population 2. Heterogeneity 3. Anonymity 4. Mobility and transiency 5. Formality of relations 6. Social distance 7. Regimentation .

Urban life and personality are affected by the physical and social conditions of urban living—anonymity, social distance, speed and tension, regimentation, impersonal social interaction, mobility and transiency etc. These conditions produce impersonality, insecurity and segmentation of personality, which appear to be universal characteristics of urbanisation (or urban community) all over the world.

Urban mode of life is quite contrary to traditional rural life, though it has affected rural life which is also in the process of change. Its characteristics are represented by the terms ‘urbanism’ and the process of its expansion is called ‘urbanisation’.

1. Large size and high density of population:  

The size of the urban community is much larger than the rural community. Not only this, in urban areas, there is high density of population. Density increases the number of short-term, impersonal and utilitarian social relationships a person is likely to have.

2. Heterogeneity:

Urban population is heterogeneous. It consists of various shades of people—different castes, classes, ethnic groups, religions, etc. They are not all alike. Urban community is noteworthy for its diversity.

3. Anonymity:

The sheer pressure of number marks for anonymity. Anonymity is a loss of identity and sense of belongingness. The heterogeneity of city life with its mixture of people of all races, castes, classes, creeds, occupations and ethnic origins heightens the sense of anonymity.

4. Mobility and transiency:

Urban life is dynamic. Social relations are temporary. Therefore, permanency does not develop in urban relations. There is a high rate of geographical as well as social mobility in urban areas. In America, on an average, a person changes his job (occupational mobility) within six years

Consequently, his dwelling (changes of residence), also changes. Different types of mobility usually mean transiency of contact. As such, urban social relations continue for a very short time. Urban dweller continually makes new social contacts.

5. Formality of relations:

In urban social life, relations are not intimate and kinship based. Most routine social contacts in the city are impersonal and segmented. Formal politeness takes the place of genuine friendliness. The impersonality of urban life is a necessary and convenient way of urban living.

6. Social distance:

City people are physically crowded but socially distant. Social distance is a product of anonymity, impersonality and heterogeneity. Occupational differences may be even more important sources of social distance. Urbanites become nigh-dwellers, not neighbours. Apartment dwellers may live for years without any acquaintance with many of the other occupants.

7. Regimentation:

The city is always in hurry. The life (work and entertainment) in the urban community becomes ‘clock regulated’. Order, regularity and the punctuality are the charac­teristics of urban life. On the streets, his movement is controlled by traffic lights, on railway stations and other places by elevators and escalators.