Sunday, October 22, 2006
The Urban Renewal of Manila
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A partnership between business and local government can cause the urban renewal of Manila into the country’s strategic center for such sunrise service sectors as a education, tourism, business process outsourcing, entertainment, logistics, and health, wellness and beauty.
A road map for such an urban renewal was discussed in a conference organized by the City Government of Manila with the Philippine Association of Realtors and the Manila Board of Realtors. R A Cuervo Inc., a leading realty company, provided the intellectual in put to the conference.
The urban renewal plan will build on the many programs already implemented by Manila Mayor Lito Atienza, who was the keynote speaker of the conference that was billed as “Business Opportunities in Manila’s Urban Renewal.”
Already Manila is a top destination for tourists – both foreign and domestic – because of its cultural treasures, entertainment establishment establishments and parks facilities, especially along the Roxas Boulevard. These are concentrated in the Malate and Ermita districts of Manila.
The next major facelift is targetted for the university belt within the Sampaloc district despite efforts of universities to relocate outside of the National Capital Region, Manila is still the premier educational center with an estimated 300,000 of the country’s students in tertiary education.
The urban renewal plan will consist mainly in redeveloping properties in the Sampaloc area into medium-rise student dormitories that will improve the living condition of hundreds of thousands of university of students who at present are forced to live in crowded and unhygienic facilities providing unfavorable environment to intellectual work.
Only a very small fraction of these students are fortunate enough to reside in student dormitories run by religious or charitable organizations committed to student welfare. A pioneer in student dormitories construction is Enrique Moras, who introduced the cooperative approach to constructing high-rise buildings. Moras was one of the speakers.
Various speakers presented vital information convincing real estate developers that constructing residential units for students, especially those coming from outside Manila, can give sufficient returns to the investments.
Many middle-income and high-income families, about twenty percent of the population, can invest in these residential units for use of their children studying in the universities around. Because of the high costs of transport – both in time and money – even families living in suburbs like Alabang and Sta. Rosa may find it worthwhile to invest in these residential units, which have a high resale value to the parents of future university students.
The prospects for these student dormitories were further brightened by the report given by Congressman Rodolfo Bacani, Representative of the 4th District of Manila, about a proposed legislator that will give incentives for the development of quality dormitories in the university belt.
Providentially, Mayor Atienza is slated to attend a Spain-Philippine Forum in Madrid (November 30December 1, 2005) during which he will meet with another dynamic politician, Madrid Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon who is also in the midst of a through-going urban renewal of Spain’s capital.
As an article in the International Herald Tribune (IHT), November 7, 2005 reported, “Madrid is currently undertaking the greatest process of urban transformation in its history, and one of the most ambitious in Europe.” A technology that Mayor Atienza could transfer from Madrid to Manila is the centuriesold concept of the “Collegio Mayor” (residential college) of which there are hundreds all over Spain.
These residential colleges, many of them run by non-governmental organizations, provide not only comfortable and economical living quarters for university students.
More importantly, they contribute to the improvement of the quality of higher education by providing by the residents complementary humanistic, cultural and spiritual formation which they may not obtain in the universities where they are studying.
Because of the large number of universities in Manila, it may also be the best location for the investors going into business process outsourcing, especially the non-voice segment of the industry, such as animation, accounting design, legal documentation and medical transcription.
More than 25 percent of accounting and finance students are in the universities in Manila. Law, architectural, medical, and nursing schools also bound in the university belt. Endowed with very advanced telecom facilities, many underutilized properties in the Sampaloc area, for example, can accommodate cyberzones like Eastwood City in Quezon City.
I am sure Mayor Atienza will comeback with a few more initiatives for the urban renewal of the Manila after his historic meeting with Mayor Ruiz-Gallardon of Madrid. The two of them have parallel visions: to make their respective cities global leaders in urban renewal in the 21st Century.
For comments, email bvillegas@uap.edu.ph
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A road map for such an urban renewal was discussed in a conference organized by the City Government of Manila with the Philippine Association of Realtors and the Manila Board of Realtors. R A Cuervo Inc., a leading realty company, provided the intellectual in put to the conference.
The urban renewal plan will build on the many programs already implemented by Manila Mayor Lito Atienza, who was the keynote speaker of the conference that was billed as “Business Opportunities in Manila’s Urban Renewal.”
Already Manila is a top destination for tourists – both foreign and domestic – because of its cultural treasures, entertainment establishment establishments and parks facilities, especially along the Roxas Boulevard. These are concentrated in the Malate and Ermita districts of Manila.
The next major facelift is targetted for the university belt within the Sampaloc district despite efforts of universities to relocate outside of the National Capital Region, Manila is still the premier educational center with an estimated 300,000 of the country’s students in tertiary education.
The urban renewal plan will consist mainly in redeveloping properties in the Sampaloc area into medium-rise student dormitories that will improve the living condition of hundreds of thousands of university of students who at present are forced to live in crowded and unhygienic facilities providing unfavorable environment to intellectual work.
Only a very small fraction of these students are fortunate enough to reside in student dormitories run by religious or charitable organizations committed to student welfare. A pioneer in student dormitories construction is Enrique Moras, who introduced the cooperative approach to constructing high-rise buildings. Moras was one of the speakers.
Various speakers presented vital information convincing real estate developers that constructing residential units for students, especially those coming from outside Manila, can give sufficient returns to the investments.
Many middle-income and high-income families, about twenty percent of the population, can invest in these residential units for use of their children studying in the universities around. Because of the high costs of transport – both in time and money – even families living in suburbs like Alabang and Sta. Rosa may find it worthwhile to invest in these residential units, which have a high resale value to the parents of future university students.
The prospects for these student dormitories were further brightened by the report given by Congressman Rodolfo Bacani, Representative of the 4th District of Manila, about a proposed legislator that will give incentives for the development of quality dormitories in the university belt.
Providentially, Mayor Atienza is slated to attend a Spain-Philippine Forum in Madrid (November 30December 1, 2005) during which he will meet with another dynamic politician, Madrid Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon who is also in the midst of a through-going urban renewal of Spain’s capital.
As an article in the International Herald Tribune (IHT), November 7, 2005 reported, “Madrid is currently undertaking the greatest process of urban transformation in its history, and one of the most ambitious in Europe.” A technology that Mayor Atienza could transfer from Madrid to Manila is the centuriesold concept of the “Collegio Mayor” (residential college) of which there are hundreds all over Spain.
These residential colleges, many of them run by non-governmental organizations, provide not only comfortable and economical living quarters for university students.
More importantly, they contribute to the improvement of the quality of higher education by providing by the residents complementary humanistic, cultural and spiritual formation which they may not obtain in the universities where they are studying.
Because of the large number of universities in Manila, it may also be the best location for the investors going into business process outsourcing, especially the non-voice segment of the industry, such as animation, accounting design, legal documentation and medical transcription.
More than 25 percent of accounting and finance students are in the universities in Manila. Law, architectural, medical, and nursing schools also bound in the university belt. Endowed with very advanced telecom facilities, many underutilized properties in the Sampaloc area, for example, can accommodate cyberzones like Eastwood City in Quezon City.
I am sure Mayor Atienza will comeback with a few more initiatives for the urban renewal of the Manila after his historic meeting with Mayor Ruiz-Gallardon of Madrid. The two of them have parallel visions: to make their respective cities global leaders in urban renewal in the 21st Century.
For comments, email bvillegas@uap.edu.ph
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