Latest in Urban PlanningQuezon City considers itself the green lung of Metro Manila, and with reason. La Mesa watershed alone accounts for nearly one quarter of the city’s total land area, complemented by the expansive UP Diliman campus and Quezon Memorial Circle at its center. This forms a continuous green mass that…
Caloocan City is unique among all 17 local government units in Metro Manila: it is the only city physically divided into two separate and unconnected halves—North and South Caloocan—with no direct public transit link between them. Caloocan City Administrator Aurora Ciego this gap, which has…
Every school, hospital, and housing project Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso builds in Manila is a high-rise. The maverick mayor said this was not out of architectural preference but out of necessity, fiscal logic, and a deliberate effort to anticipate the city’s needs 15 years into the…
Metro Manila has never had a master plan—not 30 years ago, not 50 years ago, and not today—and that absence of vision is at the root of every crisis the capital region now faces, from chronic flooding to gridlock to a garbage problem with no solution in sight, Caloocan City 2nd District…
Metro Manila ranks 103rd in global livability, far behind Bangkok at 93rd and Tokyo at 3rd. Caloocan City 2nd District Representative Edgar “Egay” Erice describred this as a humbling fall for a capital region that in the 1960s was considered one of Asia’s most modern cities and whose country had…
Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso wants the drainage master plan in motion fast, stressing that the next generation of Manileños deserves to grow up in a city no longer crippled by constant floods. On Thursday, September 18, Domagoso personally handed over the city’s long-term…
“You build roads and bridges, we build cities and nations.” This was Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso’s message to the country’s civil engineers as he urged them take an active role in shaping a better, more resilient capital city. The Mayor made this call on Friday, August 8, in…
As leptospirosis cases surge—over 3,037 nationwide, with hundreds of lives lost—we must speak not only with data, but with deep empathy. Behind every statistic is a grieving family, a breadwinner lost, a child orphaned. And behind every flooded street is a system that failed them. This is not just…
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