Life is full of challenges especially for people living in cities. The city is a place where people live, work and play in a dense environment with tall buildings, heterogeneous society and too many vehicles. In the city there are so many things to see, to hear, to capture, to absorb and the senses of the human being are over-stimulated. People go to work and go back home like clock work. The urban community is occupied with work-related activities and the urban environment is especially catered for this. Everyday, urban people go out from their house to earn their living and in their busy schedule they may not be too concern about their social surroundings in their housing area. Many sociologists had studied the effects of the urban physical environment on the social surroundings of the housing environment and this paper will give a closer look into this matter.

One of the classical theories on community was written by Tonnies (1855-1937) a German sociologist who coined up the two famous concept; Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. He studied how life in the new industrial metropolis differed from life in traditional rural settings (Macionis 1999). Tonnies (1963; orig. 1887) referred to Gemeinschaft as a type of social organization by which people are bound closely together by kinship and tradition. On the other hand Gesellschaft is a type of social organization by which people come together only on the basis of individual self-interest.