The map shows the city plan of old Manila, featuring the house areas, infrastructures and country fields. Areas noted are Santa Cruz, Quiapo, Sampaloc, Hospital de San Lorenzo, Intramuros, Malate, Ermita, and Tondo. Manila had once been described as a “sewer” and a “pest-hole” but this map show the unrealized potential of a city that could have been on par with Madrid or Barcelona during the colonial period. Today, despite various efforts to spruce the city has remained the same with its esteros and flood-prone areas, unkempt, cratered and sidewalk-less streets, open manholes, deteriorating- dwellings, dearth of vegetation, and the growing number of beggars prowling. This map shows the unrealized and unfulfilled potential of Manila and its districts that would have arguably brought it up to par with Spain’s continental cities like Madrid and Barcelona during its colonial period.
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Plano De Manila y Sus Arrabales 1894 -- Escala Del Plano: 1:5000 (Map of Manila and its Suburbs 1894)
dated 1894
copperplate engraving
framed: 42” x 60” (107 cm x 152 cm) unframed: 38 1/2” x 56 1/2” (98 cm x 144 cm)
SOLD: PHP 4,204,800
Literature: Ocampo, RB. Planning and Development of Prewar Manila: Historical Glimpses of Philippine City Planning. Philippine Journal of Public Administration. 1992