... a set of rhythms and flows that can be found in most cities around the world, with some local variation. People seem to flow as one as they head for work or carry out the many services that a city needs, what is not apparent is the way in which the residents of cities have little day to day interactions. Individuals harbour indifference to others that they may meet on the streets and mass transport systems as they travel from home to work and back again. Within the daily rush hour those returning home following their night jobs, such as cleaners and security guards, are lost in the sea of individuals working 'normal' office hours. Louis Wirth suggests that because of the large numbers of individuals living in close proximity that 'contacts of the city may be face to face, but they are nevertheless impersonal, superficial, transitory and segmental' he sees ...

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