Manila - FIABCI-USA

Manila Megalopolis 2021
Philippines @ 500
Felino “Jun” Palafox, Jr.
FUAP, PIEP, APEC Architect
International Associate AIA, Harvard GSD, ULI, APA, CTBUH, CNU, ICSC
Principal Architect – Urban Planner
Founding Partner
Palafox Associates
&
President & Principal Architect
Palafox Architecture Group, Inc.
The Philippines Can!
19 Top Economy in the World by
th
2025
16 by 2050
th
Changing Economic Panorama at the Global Level: 2025 and 2050
Global and emerging cities
Boracay, Aklan
Source: whatsnew.ph
Source: attracttour.com
Lake Sebu | South Cotabato
Mayon Volcano | Bicol
Source: asianpictures.org
Fort Santiago | Intramuros Manila
San Agustin Church | Intramuros Manila
Fishermall | Quezon City
National Setting
The Philippines
The Philippines
National Setting
1930s to 1970s
# 2 in Asia
(2nd to Japan)
The Three Major Challenges
The Philippines
Daniel Burnham’s Plan for Manila (1905)
Based on concepts of grand scale, wide radial
boulevards, landscaped parks, and pleasant vistas
Burnhan saw Venice in our esteros. Our Pasig
River and Binondo Canal can be good transport
routes for accessibility and trading.
Old Manila
Pasig River activity
Escolta Street, July 1899
Lawton, Manila, late 1800s
Growth of Metro Manila
1948
2010
1970
1990
2020
Megalopolis
• Typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent
metropolitan areas.
• Sometimes called as megapolis or megaregion
Great Lakes Megalopolis
(North American metropolitan areas)
CBDs in Metro Manila
City of Manila
Quezon
City
Rockwell
Center
Cubao
District
Makati CBD
Ortigas Center
Eastwood
Fort Bonifacio
Global City
Makati CBD Skyline
Manila Skyline
Century City |Makati
PNR Track (Existing)
PNR Track Redevelopment Plan
Pocket Park at Lawton in front of Metropolitan Theater (Existing)
Pocket Park at Lawton in front of Metropolitan Theater (Proposed)
Proposed Remedios Circle
Pasig River Tomorrow
Pasig River Redevelopment Plan: “Pasig River of the Future”
“Make no little plans; they have no magic
to stir men’s blood. Make big plans; aim
high in hope and work, remembering that
a noble, logical diagram once recorded
will never die, but long after we are gone
will be a living thing, asserting itself with
ever growing insistence. Remember that
our sons and daughters are going to do
things that would stagger us. Let your
watchword be order and beacon beauty.”
—Daniel Hudson Burnham
“PRO DEO , PATRIA, ET
TERRA”
For God, Country, and Planet
Earth
Green Architecture and Green Urbanism towards Global
Excellence
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