APPROVED SPECIALIZATION 1

(Urban Design Studio)

MANILA CITY

. Araa, Mary Rose C.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT

No. of establishments
ESTABLISHMENTS
defined as an economic unit,

which engages, under a single

ownership or control, i.e. under a
single entity; in one or
predominantly one kind of
economic activity at a single
fixed physical location
Thus, stores, shops, factories,
mining companies, electric
plants, transport companies,
radio stations, hotels,
restaurants, banks, insurance
companies, real estate
development companies and the
like are considered

ESTABLISHMENTS
Ambulant peddlers and

hawkers and movable stall

either along a public road or
in a market place, as they
do not have a fixed business
location, are not considered
as establishments.
Similarly, open stalls in shopping centers, malls and

markets are not to be listed as they do not have

permanency of business location.
Individual professionals and technical workers or
craftsmen who do not maintain fixed offices or shops are
also excluded.

CLASSIFICATIONS OF ESTABLISHMENTS

NO. OF ESTABLISHMENTS

As the commercial, financial, and industrial center of the

country, NCR accounts for 33% of the Philippines' Gross

Domestic Product (GDP). Its economy is diverse and
multifaceted.
The City of Manila is a hub for manufacturers that
produce industrial-related products such as chemicals,
textiles, clothing, and electronic goods; the city also
contains the chief seaport of the country. Food,
beverages, and tobacco products are also produced in
Manila.

OFFICE AND COMMERCIAL CENTER

COMMERCIAL AREAS
Commercial areas in a city are
areas, districts, or neighborhoods
primarily composed of
commercial buildings, such as a
downtown, central business
Manila Skyline
district, financial district, "Main
Street", commercial strip, or
While commercial activities
shopping center. Commercial
typically take up a relatively small
activity within cities includes the
amount of land, they are
buying and selling of goods and
extremely important to a
services in retail businesses,
communitys economy. They
wholesale buying and selling,
provide employment, facilitate the
financial establishments, and a
circulation of money, and often
wide variety of uses that are
serve many other roles important
broadly classified as "business."
to the community, such as public

OFFICE AND COMMERCIAL CENTER

OFFICE & COMMERCIAL AREAS
Binondo, the oldest and one of the
largest Chinatown in the world, was the
center
of commerce and business activities in
the city. Numerous residential and
office
skyscrapers are found within its
medieval streets. Plans to make the
Chinatown
area into a business process
outsourcing (BPO) hub progresses and
is aggressively
pursued by the city government of
Manila. 30 buildings are already
identified to be

Binondo/Chinatown

OFFICE AND COMMERCIAL CENTER

OFFICE & COMMERCIAL AREAS

Avenida

Escolta

SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

MOBILITY & WALKABILITY/

PEDESTRIAN WALK NETWORK
WALKABILITY
Walkability is a measure of how friendly

an area is to walking. Walkability has

health, environmental, and economic
benefits. Factors influencing walkability
include the presence or absence and
refers to how safe,
quality of footpaths, sidewalks or other
convenient, and efficient it is
pedestrian rights-of-way, traffic and
to walk in an urban
road conditions, land use patterns,
environment. Walkability has
building accessibility, and safety,
a direct impact on urban
among others. Walkability is an
residents mobility, as the
important concept in sustainable urban
term is often used to
"The extent to which the built environment
design.
communicate how likely the
is friendly to the presence of people living,
average person is to choose
shopping, visiting, enjoying or spending
walking over other modes of
time in an area."
transport in a given area.

BIKEWAY NETWORK
a network of designated cycling routes for

cycling to neighborhoods and destinations

across the City. The cycling network includes
many types of infrastructure, such as Cycle
Tracks, bicycle lanes, shared roadway routes
and multi-use pathways. Cycling routes are
for both commuter and recreational cycling.

Bicycle Facility Elements

The basic components of
bicycle facilities are:
Bicycle Parking; On-Street
Bikeways; Off-Street
Bikeways; Other bikeway
structures.

WATERWAYS &
GREENWAYS
Manila itself was an

archipelago (within an
archipelago) with islets in
the Pasig River system
when it was still not a big
city like today. Ever
encountered the streets
Estero Cegado and Isla
de Romero in Quiapo Santa Cruz area? That is
the proof that Manila had
more waterways back
then that it is before.
Estero Cegado literally
means closed estero
and Isla de Romero is
where the Feati
University is located now.
The waterways were

Burnham himself

planned for more

filling of these
waterways and to
widen some
commercially viable
waterways both for
drainage and
navigation. In the
span of a century, we
have already filled
those with concrete.
Only a few remain.
The usual places
where flooding is
worst are the same
places with many of
these waterways are
filled for building in

WATERWAYS &
GREENWAYS
The price of urbanization has been prohibitive

due to pollution, imbalances in the ecosystem.

Waterways are practically bad, the air is
polluted because of unregulated vehicular
emissions and industrial wastes; waste
management remains inadequate. The Pasig
River and the 23 creeks or esteros are
considered
biologically dead.
Pasig River

Estero de San
Miguel

Canal de la Reina

Estero de Binondo