Burnham Plan of Manila
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The Burnham Plan of Manila is a popular name for Report on proposed improvements at Manila and Manila, P.I., plan of proposed improvements, a 1905 report and map by Daniel Burnham and Pierce Anderson which detail the plan for the city of Manila. It proposed developments based on the characteristics of the city and is patterned after the cities of Naples, Paris, and Venice.[1]
Report on proposed improvements at Manila | |
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Created | June 28, 1905 |
Commissioned by | William Howard Taft |
Author(s) | Daniel Burnham Pierce Anderson |
Subject | City planning |
The plan was at the request of then-Philippine Governor-General William Howard Taft, four years before Burnham published the more known Plan of Chicago where the plan also appeared along with plans for Washington, D.C., Cleveland, and San Francisco.
There have been efforts to revive the implementation of the plan throughout the years after not being completely realized because of the establishment of Quezon City in 1939 as the new capital and the effects of the World War II including the merging of Manila with nearby cities forming the city of Greater Manila in 1942 and the Battle of Manila in 1945. The plan is often a subject of discussions in the issue of urban planning in the Philippines.[2][3][4][5]