Fire and Quake in the Construction of Old Manila

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ID9347166
AutoresGreg Bankoff (0000-0002-5493-0057, University of Hull, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume10
Fascículo1-2
Páginas411-427
Data de publicação2006-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Medieval History Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0971-9458 • E-ISSN: 0973-0753
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/097194580701000215
OpenAlexW2126057201
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas25

Manila, was one of the grandest early modern European cities in Asia, yet it was destroyed by fire and earthquake on numerous occasions. Over successive reconstructions, it evolved a style of architecture and urban planning that reconciled alien notions about space and place to local environmental realities. The city that materialised over the ensuing centuries was neither wholly European nor Asian, but a rich fusion of the two whose form and substance was ultimately determined by the twin threats of conflagration and seismic activity

Alien · Archaeology · Forensic engineering · Geography · Political science · Politics · Quake (natural phenomenon · Seismology · Engineering · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Architecture · Geology