Urbanism could be approached from the point view of human personalities.

It could be understood as a set of attitudes and ideas and constellation of personalities engaging in typical forms of collective behaviour.

The superficiality, anonymity and the transitory character of urban-social relations make intelligible the sophistication and the rationality ascribed to city-dwellers. He/she gains freedom from the personal and emotional controls of intimate groups, and loses the spontaneous self-expression, the morale, and the sense of participation that comes from living in an integrated society.

This constitutes essentially the state of anomie that Durkheim alludes to in describing the various forms of social disorganization in the modern era. The ‘fragmented’ or the ‘schizoid’ nature of urban personality has to do with the multiplication of roles or the segmentalization of human relationships. All the roles are differentiated functions. Personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide, delinquency, corruption, disorder etc. are expected more under these circumstances.