Saturday, June 26, 2021 | 10 AM – 12 PM UTC+08
Live Video
Filipinas Heritage Library
Ayala Museum, Dela Rosa Street, Makati, 1224 Metro Manila
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In this free webinar, three historians reflect on the changing urban forms of three cities: Makati, Iloilo, and Zamboanga. Paulo Alcazaren, Meloy Mabunay, and Noelle Rodriguez connect those changes to Philippine democracy’s evolution before and after World War II.
Co-presented with the U.S. Embassy of the Philippines, the webinar examines how the shaping of citizens occurs alongside cultivating their city sense. Showing this link are the expansions, improvements, and uses of streets, plazas, and other public spaces.
City sense names the sense of community that helps city dwellers consolidate who they are. Their identification with processes in, and the shapes of, their cities strengthen civic feeling, the care for these places and for the nation as a whole.
Alcazaren, Mabunay, and Rodriguez use primary sources to recall the histories unique to the cities respectively in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. They feature maps, letters, travelogues, postcards, and phots from their personal archives and FHL’s Roderick Hall Collection.
