Presbyterian Missionaries in the Philippines: Conduits of Social Change, 1899–1910. By Anne C. Kwantes. Quezon City, Philippines: New Day Publishers, 1989. xiv + 238 pp. $12.75 paper.

1992 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-141
Author(s):  
Gary J. Bekker
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Quezon City

scholarly journals Quezon's City: Corruption and contradiction in Manila's prewar suburbia, 1935–1941

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Pante
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Spatial Representation ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Quezon City ◽  
The Future ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
The City

Quezon City was founded in 1939 as a planned city and envisioned as the future capital of the Philippines, which was anticipating its independence in a few years. Led by President Manuel Quezon, Philippine politicians conferred upon the city narratives of nationhood and social justice to make it the best spatial representation of a nation-in-waiting. However, underneath these state-centric ideologies was the authoritarianism of the Quezon regime, which used urban politics to centralise power. But far from being a symbol of the President's undisputed dominance, Quezon City's inherent contradictions became weak points in the city's official narrative.

scholarly journals Measuring the Street Layout Orientation Entropy of Cities in the Philippines

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Homer Pagkalinawan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Variables ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
City Development ◽  
Street Network ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Quezon City ◽  
Street Layout ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
The Difference

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Selected cities in the Philippines follow, to a certain extent, an organized street layout and orientation based on a designed plan including major cities like Manila and Quezon City. However, others cities developed organically on a less organized manner, expanding haphazardly. Being the spatial backbone of these cities, street patterns controls and limits the flow of people, goods, and activities. Measuring entropy, or the state of orderliness or disorderliness, of a street network can assess the difference between a planned and an unplanned city development. Possibly, it can be correlated to the various socioeconomic variables e.g. population, density, income level, poverty level, etc. or environmental variables e.g. night time light data, urban heat, vegetation cover, etc., that characterizes a city.</p>

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