An Evaluation of the Chicago School  
    
Several limitations of the Chicago schsool have been pointed out by its critics.
First and foremost, this theoretical school suffers from lack of cross-cultural perspective. The Chicago sociologists were responding to one kind of city. They were looking at the North American city moving into the high gear of industrialization. The neglect of historical or cross-cultural comparisons limited the significance of their work. Moreover, many of the ideas voiced by the ecological theorists do not apply to today’s cities since they are much better planned.