00000cab a22000003a 4500 UP-1685675941123975703 Buklod 20231008011922.0 a r |||| u| ta 200304s xx d | ||r ||||| || UPVTC eng 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. Quezon City Ateneo de Manila University 2016. pp. 43-71. "Political leaders have always sought to build monumental capitals, whith 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." City planning Quezon City. Quezon City. Philippine studies : historical and ethnographic viewpoints 64, 1 (March 2016). FI UPTAC UPTAC Article