Harvey, Park, Simmel and Urban Communities

As a born and raised Manhattanite, the pieces from Simmel, Park, and Harvery all struck a familiar chord with me. What I found interesting were their similarities and differences when it came to their opinions of urban communities. Harvey was adamant in his approach to point out the capitalistic qualities of cities and their dependency on a “coalition of class forces" (pg. 229). Park favored the size of urban communities, citing it was beneficial to the inhabitants in various sorts of ways. Simmel quite overtly displayed keenness to metropolitan people, stating that their "intellectualistic quality" gave them a leg up against "that of the small town which rests more on feelings and emotional relationships" (pg. 325-6).
Personally, I agreed with much of what the authors said in terms of how urban communities function. People seem to be driven by capital, and the number of different types of people in a city tend to blur the racial and ethnic differences but push them rather into classification based on earning power. This is just a little bit of what I've observed as a New Yorker and studying sociologist.