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capital city at the margins
Quezon City abd urbanization in the twentieth-century Philippines
Pante, Michael D.
creator
text
monographic
eng
xv, 367 pages 23 cm.
Quezon City served as the Philippines's capital for almost three decades (1948-1976), yet Filipinos today barely remember this historical fact. Was the city, therefore, a failure? This book answers this question by presenting an unconventional historical geography of twentieth-century Quezon City, one that focuses not on its grandiose architecture and master plan but on its boundaries, peripheries, and marginal areas. In so doing, it shows how the city functioned as a buffer zone mediating between city and countryside, and thus developed due to the urban-rural overlaps inherent in sociohistorical forces such as colonialism, revolution, agrarian unrest, decolonization, migration, and authoritarianism. Not quite Manila-centric, this book is twentieth-century Philippine history from an off-center point of view.
Michael D. Pante.
City planning
Urbanization
DS 689.Q48 .P195 2019
9789715509237
191003
20210120103033.0
350790