TY - BOOK AU - Caoili,Manuel A. TI - The origins of Metropolitan Manila: : a political and social analysis SN - 9711003856 U1 - 959.916 PY - 1988/// CY - Quezon City : PB - New Day Publishers KW - Manila Metropolitan Area (Philippines) KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - lcgft N1 - Urbanization in developing countries; Urbanization and national development; Urbanization as sine qua non to development?; Urbanization as symptom of the dependent nature of developing economics; Urbanization in developing countries: problems and politics; Manila and philippine development; Pre-colonial philippines; Spanish colonialism and philippine development; The role of manila in Spanish colonial development; Social and cultural effects of Spanish rule on Manila; The politics of Spanish colonialism; The American regime; Manila under the American regime; Class and politics under the American regime; Postwar development and politics to 1972; Metropolitan Manila's problems: the fate of the primate city under dependent development; The "primate city"; Urbanization under dependent development; Problems of the MMA ; Population of densities; Quality of life; Sanitation; Distribution of incomes and the tax base; Services; Housing; Results; The crisis of Manila government and its causes; The nature and importance of the elite in Manila; The elite and the crisis of Manila government; The politics of reform and the imposition of martial law; Politics and problems of the government of Manila to the 1960s; Attempts at reform; Prelude to martial law; Martial law and the movement for Metropolitan Manila reform ER -