A Capital City at the Margins: Quezon City and Urbanization in the Twentieth-Century Philippines
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 Ci...
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Archīum Ateneo
2019
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| Online Access: | https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/24 https://www.academia.edu/40371139/A_Capital_City_at_the_Margins_Quezon_City_and_Urbanization_in_the_Twentieth-Century_Philippines |
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| Institution: | Ateneo De Manila University |
| Summary: | 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. |
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