Tulod Roseller Jr. M.

October 28, 2020

GED0107- Sec4

The Urban Planning of Metro Manila

1. Based on the video clip cite at least 3 factors that contributed to the declined of Metro
Manila. Explain.
 Traffic Transportation- One of the factors is the overwhelming traffic crisis
happening here in the Metro Manila alone in the Philippines. Because of poor urban
planning design Manila has. It affects the flow of people’s movement or the mixed
traffic pedestrians, the loading and unloading of public transportation system, the
unruly behavior of automobile driver, and the illegal roadside parking. As they are
saying that the Philippines is one of the most developing country in Asia because
many Filipino can afford to buy a new car. But with out proper urban planning for
efficient highways, skyway, underpass or any roads for the means of transportation in
land, it can affect the economic growth of the Philippines simply because of crisis in
traffic people spend more time in highways because they are stuck in traffic than they
should be spending in work.
 Disaster Preparedness- In a country, its is normal to be resilient and adapted in a
certain disaster if this become normal to their environment. For example, in Tokyo
Japan’s infrastructure is earthquake proof as they adapt to their environment because
their land is belonging to the pacific ring of fire where in most of the earthquakes
occur. In addition, Japan has Flood System Protection that they built an underground
water infrastructure to decrease the flood disaster. However, in the case of the
Philippines, around more than 360 disaster struck the Philippines in the past 30 years
and yet the infrastructure and the urban area is not adapted to this disaster. Especially
in Metro Manila, the city lacks plan and programs for risk reduction management,
there are no measures in place to solve the decade long flood problems and also the
city’s disaster response command center lacks equipment, the office looks shabby
and neglected. Perhaps it is important to prioritizing disaster resiliency in all of
Manila especially its buildings and structures as it is city is prone to hazards.
 Floods- Metro Manila has poor urban planning design for flood disaster reduction.
Aside from the fact that the city lacks plan and programs for flood disaster, they lacks
elevated walkways for people to continue to travel without affecting by the water
floods. This may result to delay the economic growth of city as they call suspension
of incoming classes/work due to flood disaster.
2. Cite at least 2 problems Metro Manila is facing right today not mentioned in the video
clip and draw action plan to solve it.
 Lack of Environmental Protection- Rapid growth of urbanization and
population of Metro Manila it caused to devoid of green areas. Perhaps, protecting
our environment is the key to surviving through climate change. Because of
economic growth, many infrastructures were built that caused to destroy the
 greenery area of Metro Manila. As an architecture student, I want to advocate the
green architecture where in as an architect, we need to provide a protection to our
environment while we come up of a design for structure. As we do this, we need
to build with nature and not against it.
 Garbage Crisis- Many undiscipline Filipino who selfishly throw their garbage
everywhere mostly in water system that cause many factors like flood, water
pollution, and many other that affects the ecological environment of the city.
Although, there is a massive clean up of garbage from the river and land areas, it
only drives from one place to another and it may result to the increasing
percentage of air pollution. Without proper planning of garbage system in Metro
Manila, this may consider as “ticking bomb disaster” that may affect to the future
of the Metro Manila environment. One of the solution of garbage crisis happening
in Metropolitan is converting waste into fuel that can be used in industries as a
source of energy.