A Capital City at the Margins: Quezon City and Urbanization in the Twentieth-Century Philippines

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A Capital City at the Margins: Quezon City and Urbanization in the Twentieth-Century Philippines

Written by Michael D. Pante
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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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Michael D. Pante is the author of several novels. Originally from the East Coast, they now live in the Midwest with family. In addition to writing, Michael D. Pante enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading way past bedtime. Their work often explores the complexities of everyday life and human relationships.

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