TY - CONF A1 - Satur, Luzile Mae A2 - Gaynor, Andrea A2 - Gralton, Elizabeth A2 - Gregory, Jenny A2 - McQuade, Sarah T1 - Transformation of Cagayan de Oro 1945-1980: from a traditional town to an urban centre N2 - This study is an urban history of Cagayan de Oro (Northern Mindanao, Philippines), a city in a developing region, which faced urban transformation from the end of WWII in 1945 to 1980. It employed a multidisciplinary approach wherein the city’s demographic, economic and infrastructural changes were analyzed. The study revealed that Cagayan had grown and transformed from a traditional town into an urban centre whereby its demography had continuously expanded with high rates of natural increase and large streams of in-migrants; while its economic activities had shifted from agricultural production to commerce and industrialization. Its economic transition was due to the promotion of Cagayan as the “Gateway to the South” or “Gateway to Northern Mindanao” by the deciding elites who were part of the transnational economic system that supplied resources to the developed countries such as the United States and Japan. As a result, the growth of Cagayan was not directed towards the masses but instead to the elites and their foreign allies. Cagayan experienced inertia in terms of infrastructural development. Therefore the absorption of foreign structures resulted to an artificial form of urban transformation in Cagayan. Y1 - 2015 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-uni-passau/frontdoor/index/index/docId/273 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-2731 SP - 306 EP - 321 PB - The University of Western Australia CY - Australia ER -