The essays ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’ and ‘The Railway Journey’ are both elucidating the thoughts about how a city can affect individual’s behavior and how a technologically driven city influences the living circumstances. Simmel particularly talks about the ‘resistance of the individual to being leveled, swallowed up in the social-technological mechanism’. He stresses on that people living in cities are more rational than the ones who come from small town with conservative feelings and thoughts. In this case where people moving from small town to larger cities have to adapt to the fast paced changing circumstances in city as city’s life is termed as ‘violent stimuli’. Simmel also points out the blasé attitude of big city individuals as they being indifferent and superficial to emotional and qualitative perceptions and things are measured at the expense of money and time. In the second essay Wolfgang delivers a concise analysis about how railroads altered human perceptions of space and time. The introduction of railroads did induce the conception of time and space as schedules and distances were simultaneously brought into place. The rails helped in reducing the long distances, connecting the economic capitals which was instrumental in progress during the 19^th century.