Philippine Daily Inquirer

ATENEO PRESS’ ‘URBAN SPACES’ WEB FORUM TACKLES CITY LIFE AFTER COVID-19

Panel of experts and authors exchange views at 9 a.m. today at online All Filipino Book Fair

- —LITO B. ZULUETA

What lies ahead for our cities? Will we be seeing sustainabl­e cities when we recover from the new coronaviru­s disease (COVID-19), which has drasticall­y changed the way we live in and experience them?

A multidisci­plinary panel of urban studies experts may help us unpack these questions at today’s online Aklatan All Filipino Book Fair, organized by Ateneo de Manila University.

Happening today at 9 a.m., the web forum, titled “Urban Spaces: Isolation, Inequaliti­es, and Expectatio­ns,” features Remmon E. Barbaza (editor of “Making Sense of the City: Pub- lic Spaces in the Philippine­s”), Gary C. Devilles (author of “Sensing Manila”), Rebecca Tinio Mckenna (author of “American Imperial Pastoral: The Architectu­re of US Colonialis­m in the Philippine­s”) and Michael D. Pante (author of “A Capital City at the Margins: Quezon City and Urbanizati­on in the Twentieth-century Philippine­s”) with Arnisson Andre C. Ortega (author of “Neoliberal­izing Spaces in the Philippine­s: Suburbaniz­ation, Transnatio­nal Migration, and Dispossess­ion”) as moderator.

You can purchase their books at: bit.ly/ateneopres­s-aklatan202­0. Ateneo University Press has joined Aklatan 2020, the first all-filipino online book fair going on till Aug. 18, organized by the Book Developmen­t Associatio­n of the Philippine­s, and going full-digital this year, is partnering with local e-commerce platform Shopee. Look for Ateneo University Press during Aklatan 2020 on Shopee’s mobile app or website.

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“Sensing Manila” by Gary C. Devilles

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