Open public spaces
Sustainable cities can help developers create more viable communities
AMID today ’ s growing urban development in the Philippines, ensuring sustainability among its major cities is quite a challenge for developers, communities, and the government. This increasing urbanization has also been attributed to main city drawbacks such as the lack of green and open spaces, depletion of resources, pollution, and overpopulation.
Urban dwellers
More than half of the world’s current population, in fact, is composed of urban dwellers. Overpopulation, according to the World Health Organization, is highly concentrated in the world’s less developed regions. By 2050, the organization pre-
dicted, population 70 percent will have of migrated the said to the cities.
Similarly, in the Philippines, urban population has increased to more than 50 mil Which could reach to 102 million by 2050, or more than 65 percent of the country’s total population, according to the World Bank Group ( WBG)’ s “Philippines Urbanization Review.”
“The Philippines is one of the fastest urbanizing countries - gion,” the report read. “[ The] urban density overall is high, particularly in Metro Manila, one of the region’s fast growing mega cities.”
The organization added that urbanization had correlated with in the Philippines, as concluded in other countries. “Evidence from today’s developed countries and rapidly emerging economies suggests that urbanization and economic growth go hand in hand,” it said.
Noting that the Philippines has as much as other countries, the number of underlying structural issues affecting urbanization in the Philippines in various ways.”
In spite of the problems that make urban areas less livable, however, maintaining sustainability among cities can actually help developers create more viable communities for citizens. settlements designed to have minimal impacts on the environment, sustainable cities feature managements that focus on reducing the usage of energy, food, and water, as well as minimizing the generation of heat and pollution.
Govt initiative
Sustainable cities are usually tagged with a vista of natural open spaces, reduced waste, having a sense of community, integrated transportation plans, and environmental diversity. step to attain sustainability is to recognize a city’s real size, and harmonize it with its social and economic potentials.
design, engineering and management consultancy, has listed Copenhagen, Berlin, and Madrid Seoul and Tokyo when it comes to being among the world’s best in sustainability, owing mainly to their excellent public transport systems.
“Europe dominates the top of the index… many of these European cities benefit from established and well- used met Underground, strong bicycle - sterdam and Copenhagen, and high shares of commuters using public rather than private transport,” it said.
cleaner air and greener mobility systems to their lower emissions incentives and sensitivity with the environment. “Cities such as Zurich, Paris and 18 other Euro - istics and sit in the top quartile of the Planet sub-index,” it added.
To help the Philippines’ striving cities achieve and maintain these recently presented a nationwide initiative that aims to support the development of open public spaces. With a budget of P2.5 billion, the initiative complements the