From the picture developers want to paint, they envision a Manhattan skyline of towers without the Big Apple’s efficient subway, wide sidewalks, municipal car parks, multiple bridges to surrounding boroughs, and one of the best fire and police forces in the world. The Big Apple, Manila is not. Its urban core (including districts other than the historic center) is rotten from lack of maintenance, lack of upgrades, the loss of civic space and heritage structures, the blight of un-regulated development, the tyranny of jeepneys, crime, pollution, blight and the challenge of informal settlers. You cannot build a New York on old sewer pipes and crumbling infrastructure.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:49:57 +0000
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