Members OF social media have banded together to protest the Manila Bay Reclamation project. Lately, Facebook petition sites called “S.O.S. Manila Bay: Save our Sunset!” and “No to Reclamation of Manila Bay” have surfaced.
A few weeks ago, I picked up a book from Fully Booked, a little “handbook” sized one titled “Design: A Very Short Introduction.” It was written by John Heskett, a professor of Hong Kong Polytechnic’s School of Design, who has also authored many essays and stories for various design publications. In his book, Heskett looks into the application of design into everyday life, and explores its many definitions and applications
After winning its first public-private partnership (PPP) contract involving a major school infrastructure project with the Department of Education, construction and engineering firm Megawide Construction Corp. is getting the hang of the PPP ballgame.
How important is housing to healthy human and community development? According to Anaclaudia Rossbach, consultant for World Bank on low-income housing settlements and metropolitan management, it matters in ways both subtle and profound.
As a curious teenager, I would often hike to follow a couple of creeks up to their respective sources. This was about 30 years ago and my place in North Caloocan City was a sparsely populated area dominated by rice fields and grasslands.
Imagine Metro Manila as a humongous stock room filled with millions upon millions of boxes randomly arranged. Now imagine what amount of effort it must take to rearrange all these boxes into a certain pattern. Still imagine the added difficulty when you realize that the big room is getting even bigger, and more boxes are being added.
Finally, somebody in the government cares enough to do something about the absolute lack of urban planning in this country, covering particularly the congested location we call Metro Manila.
Like any other child, Felino “Jun” Palafox Jr. liked playing in the sand. But while other children would build sand castles out of their fairytale imaginations, the young Palafox would instead strive to create miniature townships, cities and buildings and adorn these with rivers and bridges—yes, all out of sand.
The Philippines has begun embarking on its first baby steps toward making Metro Manila a more green, livable and sustainable city. The target may sound ambitious. After all, the world’s fifth largest urban area—home to some 12 million people—has long made headlines for being one of the most polluted and most populated metropolitan areas in the world.
You just bought a modestly sized studio unit. Like most buyers, you would like to make your newly acquired home as cozy as possible. But you also like to make your home a reflection of your personality so the last thing you would want is to have an identical interior design and furniture with your neighbor.
The increasing number of fun runs, sports fests, and exercise classes being organized left and right, not to mention the various types of diets that have come about, clearly proved one thing: the modern Filipino has started to embrace the healthy lifestyle.
Water has no substitute. Our water resources get transformed through the seas and the atmosphere, making detours through plants and animals. The amount of time that a water molecule spends at any one point in the cycle varies from 9 days in the atmosphere to 10,000 years in the Antarctic icecap.
