Manila: Starved For Green Space
A huge metropolis with no place to chill out
It is easy to illustrate rich-poor gaps in Manila with photos of fetid slums by the malodorous Pasig or Marikina rivers with a backdrop of Makati or Ortigas. But a bigger and better picture is shown by a simple Google map. Look for green space in the metropolis of 14 million people.
Space to breathe in crowded cities has been a need long before the Engli…
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