Community

In recent class discussions we talked about how urbanization does not have community.  I have a great example of this.  If you live in an "urban" area.  You are most likely to live in some kind of apartment complex or something of that sort.   They say that when you live in this sort of environment you are most likely to not know your neighbor or even if you do know your neighbor you do not have any kind of friendship or relationship with your neighbor.  Meaning if you lived in a "community" you are more than likely to have some kind of friendship with your neighbor.   Say you were to go to jail, would you be able to call your neighbor to bail you out? Do you even know your neighbor's phone number? Well I live in the suburbs, in an apartment complex.  There are probably 8 apartment building in my complex.  I do not know a single neighbor.  I recently had my car battery die in the morning when I was suppose to be at school.  I did not have one neighbor that would be able to help me.  There EIGHT FOUR STORY APARTMENT BUILDINGS, most of which are two to three bedroom apartments.  With all of these people that I have my "complex" none of them could help me jump my car.  I did not have a "neighbor's" number to call.  So I had to wait two hours for my dad to drive all the way over to my apartment to jump my car.  I absolutely believe that "urbanization" looses the sense of a community. However urbanization is not just in the city, it's in the suburbs to.  It is wherever there is not a "white picket fence" neighborhood.  I think that it is not due to city dwelling, it is the way people have evolved in general.  Stupid urbanization.