德国社会学家和文化哲学家格奥尔格·西美尔对欧洲都市史学的贡献有着深远影响,这决不能归因于他经验方法的正确性。然而,在他的文本中,西美尔能够成功而十分准确地捕捉到现代都市中心的生活感觉——正如他的读者们证实的——应归因于他自己是一位城市居民。这篇论文提出了这样一个问题,即他在大城市尤其是柏林有或可能有什么样的经验? The contribution of the German sociologist and cultural philosopher Georg Simmel has profound implications for the contribution of European urban historians, and this must not be attributed to the correctness of his empirical methods. In his text, however, Simmel successfully and accurately captures the modern urban center’s sense of life - as his readers have demonstrated - due to himself as an urban resident. This paper raises the question of what kind of experience he may or may not have in big cities, especially Berlin.