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Mar 10, 2020 · Furthermore, the amount of built-up area per capita is closely linked to the income of a country and will distort the population share in cities and rural areas. To show this, we defined cities as cells of 250 by 250 meters that are at least 50% built-up and rural areas as cells that are less than 25% built-up.
2 days ago · These are values that children can learn while living in a rural place. 3. Quieter, less complicated life. There is less traffic, and getting from one place to another is more manageable if good roads are built. There is less noise at night, and the nightlife is often restricted to only certain areas.
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- Colonial Cities from The Spanish Area
- Traditional Philippine Houses
- New Urban Landscapes
The Spanish colonization of the Philippines was accompanied by urbanization, as the colonizers tried to regroup scattered population settlements into population centers, and as shipping allowed the emergence of port cities around the archipelago. As they had done in the Americas, the Spaniards followed a set of rules edicted in Spain (Leyes de Indi...
Traditional Philippine houses arose from a rural setting (Deocariza 2000; Villalon 2003). Architecture historiansFootnote 53 have recognized two major types of traditional, vernacular (Klassen 1986), houses in the areas of larger population density, while regional and ethnic differences also allow to identify typical Batanes or Ifugao houses, for e...
3.3.1 The Decline of the Traditional Urban Landscapes
The development of international trade during the second half of the nineteenth century led to a increase in Manila’s population. To house this growing population, existing bahay na bato were subdivided to house many tenants. In commercial districts where the bahay had an entresuelo(mezzanine), that area was rented out to tenants. Many of the old wooden houses that lined the streets especially in out-of-the-way provincial towns are now disappearing, victims of changing family fortunes and the...
3.3.2 The New City: Verticalization and Suburban Sprawl
New architectural styles appeared during the American period and continued well after the Philippine independence: multi-story, multi-units apartment buildings 2-level rowhouses (accesoria), mostly for rent to lower middle classes, and single family chalet housing style for purchase. New materials such as reinforced concrete were introduced. Most cities remained small until after World War II, but the subsequent high population growth and the following rural-urban migrations led to a rapid ri...
3.3.3 Substandard Housing: Slums in the Philippines
The less fortunate (Takahashi 2009) have moved to the cities, where they live in urban versions of the bahay kubo, temporary shanties constructed of whatever material they have salvaged (Landa Jocano 1975; Ballesteros 2010; Alcazaren 2011). There is no single specific term to name slums or shanties in tagalog (Ragragio 2003), but the vocabulary, as it is in Latin America and other countries is quite rich to describe these poor dwellings: informal settlements (Shatkin 2004), barong-barong, dam...
- Yves Boquet
- 2017
Aug 23, 2021 · Greater Manila 2020: The Evolving Urban Form. In 2021, the Manila built up urban area is estimated to have a population of 24.0 million, making it the fourth largest urban area in the world, according to Demographia World Urban Areas, covering 873 square kilometers and with a population density of 12,801 per square kilometer (33,135 per square ...
Aug 18, 2020 · A clear implementing structure and mechanism is the first step towards making the framework effectively work, not just for the country’s urban areas, but also for rural and rural–urban areas, as well. The development of national urban policy in the Philippines is crucial for achieving sustainable, smarter and greener cities.
- Mario R. Delos Reyes, Mark Anthony M. Gamboa, Ryan Randle B. Rivera
- 2020
There are several schools of though regarding urban and rural classification. To the sociologist, a person's residence in an urban or rural area is his most distinguishing characteristic, Wh'ether one lives in 'the city or in a country, there is a great connrast-inwhat he does and the conditions of Iife underwhich h¢J lives.
