Parks, Plans, and Human Needs: Metro Manila’s Unrealised Urban Plans and Accidental Public Green Spaces

• Main Authors: Saloma-Akpedonu, Czarina, Akpedonu, Erik
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: City beautiful movement; Garden City movement; Burnham plan of Manila; Frost-Arellano plan of Quezon City; needs; public parks; boundary work; Anthropology; Sociology; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/91; https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WWD3FP5YW24NSYV2NYAT/full?target=10.1080/19463138.2021.2021418
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Planned after the City Beautiful Movement and Garden City Movement, Manila City and Quezon City, now among Metro Manila’s 16 cities, did not result in the desired outcomes of their planners. The history of unfulfilled visions that began with Burnham’s 1905 Plan for Manila repeated in similar fashion...