Poblacion Houses in Cebu: Urban Architecture in the American Colonial Period

This volume examines the process of urban transformation at the turn of the twentieth century in the Philippines, focusing in particular in Cebu. Based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, the book looks at the changes in urban plans and buildings designed and built before and after the administrative transition from Spanish to American colonial rule.  In doing so, it explores the implications through about by these changes and the role that architecture played. Through Asian way of the literature and fieldwork, this monograph searches for the characteristics of American-period Philippine society as reflected in architecture as the potentials for this then-emerging profession in a period of reform and renewal.