Cleaning the Capital: The Campaign against Cabarets and Cockpits in the Prewar Greater Manila Area

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Book

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

A city's borders do not simply delineate its territorial limits. Whereas the urbanized center; as the main locus of the city's economic infrastructures and political symbolisms; defines the city and makes it recognizable to both residents and non-residents; borders provide a haven of sorts to elements of the urban underside. While boundaries separate contiguous towns from one another; they also create corridors of urban activity that are radically different from those in the center; straddling both sides of the border.

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