The present edition examines a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader sociological contexts in new millennium that produce and modify the urban society. From a first chapter that begins with a discussion of some of the more micrological features of the urban experience, this edition focuses on the significance of the more macrological, cultural, and social and political dimensions of urban change in historical span that includes the first cities and concludes with an exploration of the implications of cyberspace, transnationalism, and global terrorism for the future of urban sociology. While this study focuses primarily on modern Indian cities, its analytical and integrated discussion makes it applicable to urban societies in general.