Urban Power Structures: A Journal for Two Chapters of Barbara E. Phillips City Lights: Urban Surburban Life in The Global Society
This 3-page undergraduate paper presents a journal for Chapter 14 (“Getting Things Done”) and Chapter 15 (“Metropolitan Form and Space”) of Barbara E. Phillips’ City Lights: Urban Surburban Life in The Global Society. This paper provides a one-page summary of the chapters and then suggests the ideas which could have been elaborated upon in the text. Specifically, this essay considers how the idea of trauma is a cultural factor in creating urban space. This paper also notes that Phillips stresses power dynamics, without thoroughly considering cultural factors such as mental mapping of cities. Finally, this paper notes the ways in which one of Phillips’ examples nicely synthesizes the two chapters wile suggesting some of the ideas Phillips only implies.
