00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862197437 Buklod 20201014232726.0 m | | ta 201014s2016 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00038184655 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-565 Boquet, Yves author. From Paris and Beijing to Washington and Brasilia the grand design of capital cities and the early plans for Quezon City Yves Boquet. 2016. pages [43]-71 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-71). Political leaders have always sought to build monumental capitals, with earlier designs influencing those of later cities. The Western design that revolved around a central axis of power became evident in some Asian capitals, although cities in the Chinese cultural realm differed in shape but nonetheless had its own axis of power. This article provides a typology of capital cities and from this perspective it explores the design of the newly created capital of Quezon City in the late 1930s. Quezon City's design embraced some design ideas from elsewhere, but it remained unique. However, the design was not realized entirely. Capitals (Cities) Manila City. Urban planning Manila City. Capitals (Cities) Quezon City. Urban planning Quezon City. Philippine Studies Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 64, No. 1 (March 2016 p. 43-71. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 Available for the University of the Philippines Baguio via Project Muse. (viewed 14 October 2020) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-565 Analytics