Building the Regional City
Bioregional planning
By Nereo C. Lujan
PLANNING offices are regular features of provinces, cities and municipalities in the Philippines. These offices are mandated to chart the growth of their respective local governments and at the same time provide contingencies during crisis. But there are development issues that straddle across boundaries, giving birth to regional planning to effectively address [...]
MIGEDC Focus For Action: Presentation by Dr. Gary Davidson and Beate Bowron
Presentation by Dr. Gary Davidson and Beate Bowron (Canadian Urban Institute) consultants.
CUI Urban and Regional Planning Program
Iloilo, September 7 – 16, 2008
Beate Bowron, FCIP, RPP, former Director of
Community Planning, City of Toronto
Dr. Gary Davidson, FCIP, RPP, former Director of
Planning and Development, County of Huron
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Knowledge economy 101
SEOUL—When you give something a name, you empower it. And so, they’ve given it a name—knowledge economy or knowledge-based economy. In layman’s terms, knowledge economy (KE) means using knowledge to create wealth. Wealth isn’t a bad word if it means quality life, not just for a few, but for all.
Representatives from six countries—Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, [...]
Rehab or Perish
By Ben Jimena
THESE DAYS, when you go around Iloilo City, most likely you would not miss the dumps along the road which just pile up day after day and the smell that lingers, becoming more putrid every time rains come. Of course, the garbage and lumps of earth by the road get collected regularly but [...]
The Evolution of the Jeepney and Transit in Metro Iloilo
By Ian Malczewski
EARLY every morning, after the roosters’ shrill call, a creature rises in Metro Iloilo, snarling, burping, and chewing the earth as its crawls. With a skeleton of steel and a heart that pumps oil, it carries people in its belly, shaking them from side to side. This creature is the jeepney, a mode [...]
Urban development continues to attract squatters
ECONOMIC developments can attract squatters looking for “easy money” in a progressive urban center. And with the threat of dislocation is their hope that they will consequently be fortunate to be given relocation sites.
Iloilo City Urban Poor Affairs Office (ICUPAO) chief Roy Firmeza associated the burgeoning population of squatters to fast developments in the metropolis.
Iloilo no longer in list of best performing mid-sized cities
THE Iloilo City government will initiate a roundtable discussion to analyze and learn from the results of the 2007 Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Program (PCCRP) survey.
Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas called for the said meeting after learning that Iloilo City was not included in the top 7 best performing mid-sized cities of the 2007 PCCRP [...]
2.6M more Metro folk by 2020 — ADB
AROUND 2.6 million more Filipinos are projected to be added to the already bursting-at-the-seams population of Metro Manila by 2020, according to the latest report released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The ADB report titled “Managing Asian Cities” is projecting the population growth rate in Metro Manila to hit around 24 percent from 2006 to [...]
Surviving ‘Frank’
By Ben Jimena
BANGON Iloilo. Sarangan Ta Ni! This is the battle cry of Mayor Jerry P. Treñas for rebuilding the City in the aftermath of Furious Frank which left twenty eight dead and 255,000 homeless to rally the Ilonggos towards recovery and restoration efforts.
It is not just an order to stand after a fall, but to [...]
P10B lost to ‘Frank’ nationwide – NDCC
The total damage of Typhoon “Frank” in the country reached P10 billion, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) reported to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo here. The monster howler’s damage to agriculture alone reached P5.21 billion.
Prior to the NDCC meeting, Arroyo distributed relief packs to 600 individuals at the new Iloilo airport. They came from the badly-hit [...]
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