The City Of Quezon City

Furthermore, Burnham has the passion to succeed in architecture in hopes of building the White City. “He found his calling, he wrote in 1868, and told his parents he wanted to become the ‘greatest architect in the city or country’ ”(Larson 19). Burnham has a dream to be the best, and he uses his passion for a respectable cause. Through his architectural capabilities, creativity, and innovation, he is able to affect millions of people that attend the fair and the ones who do not. As he begins to take his blueprints and put them into reality, he gives hope and inspiration to all Americans during a time of depression. Burnham uses his unique ingenuity to make the unrealistic White City that is unlike anything America has ever seen, and he shows his originality to as many people as possible. As Burnham oversees and creates the new White city, he develops a new,

Burnham deceived the world by creating the magnificent White City in order to disguise the true city of Chicago. During the time of the fair Chicago was struggling: facing economic turmoil, mass unemployment, and polluted streets. In fact, unions began to threaten the fair “Beyond the fairgrounds’ new fence, turmoil and grief engulfed Chicago” (Larson 121). Burnham is trying to block Chicago’s turmoil from destroying the fair as well as make people overlook the damaged city. He is creating the perfect city within the broken one. Burnham goes above and beyond in order to ensure that the world only sees Chicago as the White City. “With its gorgeous classical buildings packed with art, its clean water and electric lights, and its overstaffed police department, the

* Urban Planners- Mapped out plans for where buildings and companies would be constructed based on what was around them to complement each other.

Well known in cities at the time were the City Beautiful movement and the city practical, however, social issues were merely pushed to the side. Wirka (1996) explains that “both are undoubtedly important movements in the history of planning” (p. 57), however, she goes on

The Filipino people had helped the US fight the Spanish-American War in hope to gain independence in return. However, instead of gaining independence the Philippines was annexed to the United States on December 10, 1898. When the Filipino’s had found they were going to be ruled over once again they were very unhappy, after all they had helped the US. When Aguinaldo had found out that the Philippines were going to be controlled by the US, he had declared war on the United States.

Like many others, Daniel Burnham and H.H. Holmes found success in Chicago, but their ambition and determination set them apart allowing them to achieve such great feats. Daniel Burnham, being the man in charge of creating a World’s Fair to embarrass the Eiffel Tower, sought out the best architects in the country to design the buildings for The Fair:

Throughout the history of the United States, ingenuity and creativity have been a strong point in the development of the United States. In designing the buildings for the World’s Fair, Daniel Burnham shows his talent in architecture by creating new and innovative designs with his partner John Root. Both Burnham and Root had been already successful architects and known for their designs. Even before Chicago was confirmed as the site of the

Imagine a city where no green space can be found. Where concrete and steel buildings rise up and block the sun. Where streets are chaotic and gridlocked and citizens are stuffed in cramped, dirty and unsanitary apartments. This was the world of 19th-century cities where human health and happiness were disregarded for economic gain. These horrid conditions shaped the lives and ideas of three very influential men: Ebenezer Howard, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright. They took their own experiences and redesigned the sprawling metropolis to improve the lives of the residents. Each man created urban utopias that included green spaces, farms, and parks to improve air quality and the livelihoods of the people. Despite theses similar views, each design differed from the others. Howard, Le Corbusier, and Wright all completely reimagined the urban city in differing ways based on scale, distribution of land and technology. Their design concepts have been adapted across the globe and implemented into modern urban planning everywhere.

 299.735 km²  Capital: Manila  92.337.852 inhabitants  45,2% living below US$2 a day (2006)

After the war ended in 1902, United States was on a mission to repair the damages that the Philippines had endured; they wanted to win back the trust of its people. President McKinley created laws that gave the Philippines some of the same provisions as America regarding government structure. According to Sonia M. Zaide, an expert Filipino historian, the Philippines was on its way to rebuilding itself:

Designing a city from scratch is a remarkable thought experiment but ultimately fails at implementation because we always approach it from the perspective of “how can we create a new city that solves problems of existing cities.” It’s less a process driven by design and more by critique. Urban living has paved its way into modern society, yet the vision for a city has changed over time. Large settlements need planning to grow; yet differences in minds is what leads to the modifications of a city, in return makes a city so unique. Alterations in opinions are what thrives urban life, still these differences are what skews the view of how others see a city compared to myself. They say the eye of the beholder deems beauty; this could explain

The Philippines, is a group of islands in Southeast Asia, sitting in the western Pacific Ocean. It is known as the Republic of the Philippines, and consists of seven thousand, one hundred, and seven islands, that are geographically split into three main divisions, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The capital is Manila, referred to as the Paris of Asia, and the most populated is Quezon City, which are both part of Metro Manila. The Philippines has a population of close to one hundred,

It has three major island groups which are the Luzon, the largest island and where the capital is located; Visayan, and Mindanao. Eleven islands make up 94 percent of the Philippine landmass, and two of these--Luzon and Mindanao--measure 105,000 and 95,000 square kilometers, respectively. They, together with the cluster of the Visayan Islands that separate them, represent the three principal regions of the archipelago (many scattered islands in a large body of water) that are identified by the three stars on the Philippine flag.

The Philippine were discovered in 1521 by the Spanish. It's the third largest nation that speaks English in the world. The country is divided into three main areas: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. It has 17 regions, 122 cities, and 42,025 barangays. The Philippines were colonized by three countries Spain, America, and Japan. America colonized the Philippines, because they wanted to become an empire, and to expand more. They wanted to expand to have more lands, power, resources, more production, and especially more money. Also the USA didn't want lose the Philippines island to Japan or Germany.

“Rizal had a burning desire to know exactly the conditions of the Philippines when the Spaniards came ashore to the islands. His theory was the country was economically self-sufficient and prosperous.  Rizal entertained the idea that it had a lively and vigorous community enriched with the collective and sensitive art and culture of the native population. He