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In reading the articles for this week I noticed familiar trends from past weeks of the course. Starting with the article on Potsi, I noticed that atlantic cities were largely started for the same reason. For profit. Potosi was made into a city because of the silver mines near by the Europeans saw potential and for that reason created a city. It is similar to the sugar islands or even some of the colonies in America. Set up happened where money could be made on a large scale.
However, what stuck out to me the most was the Yoruba City Planning article. I thought it was interesting how this city was largely disregarded as anything special for so long by historians. Simply because it wasn’t a western city it couldn’t be considered fully urban. When in fact they had really stable political, social, and trade structures. They were definitely a stable city. It reminded me of the mende people and our ideas of imperialism. Often times people or in this case cities are disregarded as not as good or as right because they are not western. This is similar to what Danny said about historians says that they are “semi-urban”. They couldn’t give full credit to this city for all that it accomplished because it is not technically a western city.