Part 1 The individual in the city the experience of living in cities the urban bystander on maintaining social norms response to intrusion into waiting lines the idea of a neighbourhood the familiar stranger a psychological map of New York City psychological map of Paris the vertical city. Part 2 The individual and authority: some conditions of obedience and disobedience to authority interpreting obedience ethical issues in the study of obedience subject reaction - the neglected factor in the ethics of experimentation disobedience in the Sixties. Part 3 The individual and the group: nationality and conformity conformity and Norwegian life ethics and the conformity experiment group pressure and acting against a person liberating effects of group pressure the drawing power of crowds of different style. Part 4 The individual in a communicative way: the small world problem the lost letter technique television and anti-social behaviour the image freezing machine candid camera reflections on news cyranoids.