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Speaking of urban planning, while other cities in the country are getting the recognition and are urbanizing too, no planning is in place. Many cities outside Manila are described to be rows of SM Malls beside 2 storey houses, VERY wide roads with no centralized transportation system, and sometimes upper-class developments enroach to mountains or forests (as seen in Cebu). Baguio for example, was planned by the Americans and hailed as a beautiful city, but with a lack of public transit and urbanization, Baguio experiences heavy traffic during the cool months due to influx of tourists. The good news is a new attempt at urban planning is being done with New Clark City being built, but concerns over it enroaching over native Aeta lands and especially a lack of public transit would be challenges that the development needs to face. Btw your pronunciations of the place names were excellent!
I live in Baguio and agree 100%, no planning since the Americans left, no new roads in decades, no bypass, no ring road, all public transport takes you to city centre, so if you're on east side and want to go north, 1st you go to city centre then walk to transfer to go north. Many roads built "too" Baguio just to bring in tourists. Vast amount of illegal construction since the 80's allowed by every City Council.
@@emperorjonz9590 Dude, that is the running issue for 500 years now here that has led to indigenous groups embracing the Commies. You really want us to restart those old wars again?
Also large companies building expressways everywhere rather than a much better mass transport systems like trains because the generation of toll fees is quite high.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 and WHO are these people who lobbied against it? Nothing is too late, Jakarta just built their rapid transit and they are a huge city.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 and what is now, there are various railway projects under construction, some almost completed such as LRT-1 extension. I live in Southern Metro Manila and see its progress.
This is actually a very well researched video, i was also really surprised by the Metro Manila-isms you mentioned, as someone from the actual metro. Props to you Khanubis and everyone else who helped shed light on this!
I knew Manila is the densest city in the Philippines but its amazing I didn't think Manila would be denser than even cities in India and China. I would have guessed those places would have taken 1st place for densest cities in the world. Mexico city and Tokyo would have been up there too. But then again we are looking at the current census.
Population density of Metro Tokyo is 3000/Km² while Metro Manila is 21,202/km² apparently...Tokyo still has more space in surrounding cities than Manila's surrounding cities are as a whole.
Manilla is one city in the metro area, there are 7 other cities, some of which are larger than Manilla itself, it used to be the largest city until recently.
Daniel Burnham also planned Baguio! Baguio was selected to become the summer capital. In November 1901, the American colonial government expropriated lands in Baguio, 14,000 acres, owned by the Ibaloi people, who were forced to sell their land. Baguio was called Kafagway by indigenous peoples. The name Baguio originated in the American period and is derived from the Ibaloi word bagiw (moss), which was then Hispanicized as Baguio. Burnham's plans emphasized improved sanitation, a cohesive aesthetic, and visual reminders of government authority. In Baguio, government structures were built looming from the cliffs above the town. Burnham planned Manila and Baguio, while William Edwards Parsons went to the Philippines in November 1905 to "interpret" the preliminary plans prepared by Burnham for Manila and Baguio and modify these as needed while Burnham left. Baguio's Mansion was designed by Parsons. Parsons also designed the Gabaldon school buildings across the country, inspired by the traditional Filipino houses of bahay kubo and bahay na bato. Daniel Burnham actually had big roles in the creation of master plans for the development of many cities, not just in the Philippines! Including the Plan of Chicago (Riverwalk, Navy Pier, Grant Park, Northerly Island were all part of this plan). The 1909 Plan of Chicago was inspired by plans for Manila, Baguio, downtown DC, and the temporary White City he helped design for the 1893 Columbian Exposition. He also designed several famous buildings like Chicago's Field Museum (the museum was moved from Jackson Park to Grant Park after the exposition), Chicago Union Station and the Reliance and Rookery Buildings, NYC's Flatiron Building, Pittsburgh's Union/Penn Station, and DC's Union Station! So yeah, it was funny for you to mention DC, since Burnham not only designed DC's Union Station, but also helped plan the current look of downtown DC and the National Mall through the 1902 McMillan Plan. DC was originally designed under the L'Enfant plan by Parisian Pierre L'Enfant, but the McMillan Commission (also known as the Senate Park Commission) reaffirmed and updated L'Enfant's planning principles in their 1902 Plan. The McMillan Plan proposed eliminating the Victorian landscaping of the National Mall and replacing it with an uncomplicated expanse of grass, narrowing the Mall, a reflecting pool on the western end, and permitting the construction of low, Neoclassical museums and cultural centers along the Mall's east-west axis. The Ellipse would remain open space in order to preserve the vista from the White House south to the Washington Monument and the Potomac. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Passenger Terminal, located at what is today New Jersey Avenue NW and Constitution Avenue NW, would be torn down, replaced by Burnham's Union Station. Additionally, the McMillan Plan contemplated constructing clusters of tall, Neoclassical office buildings around Lafayette Square and the Capitol, as well as an extensive system of neighborhood parks and recreational facilities throughout the city. Never formally adopted by the federal government, the McMillan Plan was implemented piecemeal in the decades after its release. The location of the Lincoln Memorial, Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, Union Station, and US Department of Agriculture Building are due to the McMillan Plan. Proposals to construct Arlington Memorial Bridge received a significant boost from the plan as well. The McMillan Plan continues to guide urban planning in and around DC, into the 21st century and has become a part of the federal government's official planning policy for the national capital.
I doubt that the Philippines intended to focus all their development in one city. A highly populated and underdeveloped major city seems to be a common feature in poorer countries. There simply is less capital to go around, and it tends to concentrate.
Its in a way a negative feedback loop. Its also called by the locals as "imperial" manila for a reason, hugging all the resources while other parts of the country starve with infrastructure funds like in southern lands like mindanao.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578Pretty sure Metro Manila gives more than what it gets from the Internal Revenue Allotment. I think it's more of a case of corruption and a lack of good ideas from the elites regarding the planning of their own cities. Yes it's also a case of too much concentrated development in one area, but I sure would not just throw around the word "Imperial" in a country where political dynasties from everywhere control the state. Take the Kamara, it's literally a legislative chamber with representation from all districts, Metro Manila making up a minority of the seats.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578There's also that shitty political culture where the politicians will really only develop things if it benefits their own businesses. The National Budget is also influenced by this culture. NCR development is a given, but to other provinces and municipalities, it's pretty much decided whether you're on good terms with the top party on whether you get priority with the funding.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 Locals, you mean Bisaya. Literally only Visayans like to pull the "imperial manila" card when they also have big cities in the south, it's not Manila's problem that their local governments are so inept in attracting investments and finding partners to build infrastructure.
Philippines' case is unique, it's the fact that the people who tried hard to overthrow the dynasty system, were the ones who voted to bring their sons & daughters into power.. I don't even think that the EDSA Revolution can be repeated anymore, today our individual rights are diminished, and in the end nothing has changed...
Over the years, Metro Manila's rapid urbanization was insane and empty land is becoming limited, but the neighboring provinces like Bulacan and Cavite have empty land. Today, Metro Manila lacks public transport, but we're still building new ways of public transport including new rapid teansit lines and a new commuter rail that replaces the national railway. Rapid urbanization also happened during Martial Law.
It’s so unfortunate how long it’s taking to construct the new rail Lines. If you pass by commonwealth you can see the trains for the new train line already rusting. And they’ve never even been used yet which is unfortunate. The government shouldn’t have had those trains delivered until the line was finished
its not just MM, all major cities around asia had insane rapid urbanization, the difference is that majority of the countries PRIORITIZE building mass transportation in order to achieve productivity while the people in power in Philippine prioritize their own revenues more than building better infastructure for mass transport, in fact that was their last concern,
@@gangstagummybear3432 ph is getting started? when? it has been 70 yrs since WW2, and PH is still getting started? oh yes i hear that every year, when i was in school my my professor said pH is ”developing", now its been 20yrs, 20yrs have pass still only commuter 3 lines, do you know how many lines have been built every year in neighboring SEA countries in the last 20yrs? have you not visited abroad ? I have and Its valid to compare urbanization of PH even to the neighboring SEA countries, ph is far delayed when it comes to infrastructure for transport mainly to due government incompetence period.
@@Jose.AFT.SaddulI never get why they were already ported over when the stations aren't finished yet - they're apparently models from 2019 and it's already 5 years after (and I think the latest line is supposedly finished like 2 years ago but [sadly expected] hasn't opened yet).
8:10 the patron systems originates from the roman republic. That tradition was inherited be the iberian, italian (it's more present in the south), and greeks, as well as places that were colonized by the iberians. So, the Philippines inherited a Roman tradition for some reason.
@@xXxSkyViperxXxExactly this. There's a video by Asianometry that (indirectly) explains how patronage came to be in the Philippines, though it's more about why the country struggles to implement land reform.
In the US, the top 12 densest municipalities in the US are all in the NYC metro area, with the top four all in Hudson County, NJ. Guttenberg, Union City, West New York, and Hoboken. To put things into perspective for Guttenberg, over 12K people (in 2020 census) live in a land area that's just .19 square miles (total area of .24 square miles)! And I call it the Whittier, Alaska of New Jersey because of the Galaxy Towers! A trio of 44-story octagonal towers (with two 16-story connecting structures) built right on the Palisades, with over a thousand residential units (began as rentals but was converted to condos in 1980), retail, and office space! It takes its name from Johannes Gutenberg as it used to be populated by many Germans but now it's very Cuban. Hoboken has been nicknamed the Mile Square City, but it actually occupies about 1.25 sq mi (3.2 sq km) of land! Hoboken is the location of the first officially recorded game of baseball (in 1846) and of the Stevens Institute of Technology, one of the oldest technological universities in the US. It is also known as the birthplace and hometown of Frank Sinatra! The character of the city has changed from an artsy industrial vibe from the days when Maxwell House coffee, Lipton tea, Hostess Cupcakes, and Wonder Bread called Hoboken home, to one of trendy shops and condominiums. Hoboken even has an active NJT rail terminal, which is also served by ferries, PATH, light-rail, and NJT buses. Because of the lack of space, these small dense places like Hoboken and Weehawken bury their bodies in North Bergen, which is why a good portion of North Bergen (still in Hudson County) has cemeteries. Hoboken hasn't had a car crash-related fatality since 2017 thanks to making its streets safe for cyclists and pedestrians! Under Mayor Ravi Bhalla, Hoboken implemented daylighting, installing flexible posts, rain gardens or racks to prevent cars from parking at street corners and improve visibility between pedestrians and drivers! They also reduced the limit from 25 mph to 20 mph in 2022! Alongside Guttenberg, Union City and West New York are known as Havana on the Hudson because of their Cuban population. Union City is also known as the "Embroidery Capital of the US". Before Latinos immigrated, German Americans and Dutch dominated the area. Along with Swiss and Austrian immigrants, they founded the European-style lace making industries for which they were famous. And the introduction of Schiffli lace machines in Hudson County earned Union City its embroidery capital title. Jersey City and Weehawken, both in Hudson County, are within the top 20 municipalities in the US as well. In the 2020 census, Weehawken had a population of 17,197, living in a land area of just .78 sq miles! Weehawken is of course famous for the Weehawken Dueling Grounds, the site of the Hamilton-Burr duel. The boulder that Hamilton rested on after he was shot is still there. Hamilton actually helped design the streets of downtown Jersey City! In 2020, Jersey City had a population of 292,449 living in a land area of 14.74 sq miles! Redevelopment of the Jersey City waterfront has made the city one of the largest centers of banking and finance in the US and has led to the district and city being nicknamed Wall Street West. These places mentioned have experienced a housing boom thanks to the Hudson-Bergen Light-Rail, which connects places like North Bergen, Union City, Weehawken, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Bayonne. In Jersey City's case, both them and Hoboken have PATH stations and HBLR stations and have taken advantage through building TOD around these stations, alongside miles of protected bike lanes with Citi Bike bikeshare. Not just downtown either, Journal Square has densified too thanks to it being a major bus/PATH hub for NJT buses and frequent jitneys. NY Waterway has different stops for its ferries in Jersey City, Hoboken, and Weehawken, as well as Edgewater in Bergen County, to connect with Lower Manhattan and Midtown.
Metro Manila alone is 13 million but Greater Manila including CALABARZON and Central Luzon are around 25 million and we are talking about continuous urban area. Jakarta has one light rail and one metro line, less than that of Metro Manila but it has an extensive commuter rail system.
I get adding Metro Manila but Central Luzon is already farmland territory that I think it's not helpful to add it...there is a Greater Manila Area which has 28 million people but the density shrinks from Metro's 21K to Mega's 3.5K (includes whole surrounding provinces). That being said an expansive rail system connecting these provinces with Metro Manila may be helpful to develop these provinces while also giving easy access to services in the Metro.
it's tomorrow AND i'm gonna have school at 10am but still looking forward to this! i'm gonna give my opinions in this comment when the vid goes live and i get back from school
This is surprisingly well-researched. You actually went beyond the usual suspects, poor urban planning, and actually touched on the nature of corruption in the Philippines. You missed a major point though: The role of big businesses in the Philippines. Since the government is so corrupt, there was a drive to privatize critical government services in the hopes of making it more efficient. The problem with making public services owned by big businesses is that the incentive shift from serving the public, into making money. Big businesses built expressways instead of railways so they'll have more profits in toll fees and gas. This is most evident in the absence of public spaces as well. There's a reason we have the BIGGEST malls in the world, and that's because the SM group, the Ayala Corp., Robinson, and the Villars actively buy public spaces in urban areas to turn into their malls. For the local cities, of course, malls generate more revenue than parks, but that of course remove green spaces that could've helped with the bad air quality in urban areas. But overall, your video gives an accurate depiction of the reality of urbanization in the Philippines. And your pronunciation is also spot on. You've earned yourself a subscriber, mate. Cheers!
Something similar happened in Costa Rica. Between 1950-1980, San Jose exploded in population, as it was the one place in the country with industrial jobs instead of agriculture. The problem: The government didn't really know what to do, and left urban development to each individual municipality rather than to a higher authority. This led to a complete urban disorder, specially in southern SJ (Alajuelita, Desamparados, Aserri,...) Traffic here is shit for how small the city is (2.5 million ppl), and traffic projects have to cross so many legal hurdles that our main highway loop around SJ (called Circunvalacion) took 7 decades to finish... Nowadays the city is not growing so fast, but that is mostly cuz ppl now move to nearby cities (Heredia, Alajuela, Cartago) and it seems they are going a similar path XD
@@NanobanaKinakoNot a problem if they come from America or Western Europe...their Uber are probably even higher price than us but they earn a lot more.
just subscribed recently and was surprised by you uploading about where I lived, i know yall talked about manila-metro manila in relation, but as a Quezon City native I'm always fascinated by how perceptions of "southies" "northies" "tondo/manila" energies/stereotypes have come about, historically i mean! thanks again for the video i've been having a kick learning about geopolitics and thematic history on youtube lately
The biggest problem is lack of actual planning. Let alone strategic planning. Metro Manila has 16+1 cities with their own local authorities. Most of them held by a political dynasty hell bent on keeping their power. Coastal cities have given their blessing for more reclamation, worsening floods, building development for rich people to play in. Metro Manila does not really lack land. It just sucks at strategic planning, much of the slums are low rise structures. Coupled with a car-first mindset of policymakers, it is no wonder the go-to solution they resort to are road-widenings and more highways. The latest brain-dead project is putting up a highway along the river Pasig.
It's not the lack of actual planning (manila has a masterplan already design), it's enforcing those plans. Leaders being elected did not care about those master plans until very recently.
Yorme Isko has his chance in the City Hall, and he almost blew it before he ran for president (where, of course, he lost to BBM). Now he betrays who he once considered his running mate.
For me the overcentralization came first from the Spaniards due to trying to consolidate power to easily facilitate trade and customs in Manila for the international trade, then the US excacerbated it due to the challenge of the vast archipelago, its just that Philippines was forced not by the countries but by its geological advantage and disadvantage to overcentralize due to the natural flow of modernization and increasing rural to urban logistics. Radial Road 10 has seen significant upgrades through out the years but the sheer volume of traffic of goods that comes out of the Port of Manila (North and South Harbor) is still significant enough that every week at midnight, there is significant traffic at Radial Road 10 which often bleeds out to other major highways of the city. EDSA, an outdated highway, was just overwhelmed and the lack of space created one of the worst highways to go to the point that arterial and collectors are used by people to alleviate and escape the traffic.
True. WWII stopped the Burnham plan in its tracks, and destroyed a lot of Manila's infrastructure(it was the second most destroyed city in WWII after Warsaw), including the literal tracks, since pre-war Manila had a tram system that it conspicuously lacks today. At least the Japanese helped rebuild some infrastructure after the war, though it's sad that they still refuse to teach the full history of WWII and Japan's actions to the Japanese people.
That is why the Philippines is slowly developing a new capital city up in the north, to move the administrative buildings and other businesses away from Metro Manila.
It's not as easy as you make it sound though, there's plenty of resistance. The past administration moved DOTr (Department of Transportation) Central Office to Clark, but this admin's new Secretary of Transportation moved it back to Manila. Employees were tired of having to ride shuttles to and back, and only 10% of families moved to Clark which is the government's goal in the first place.
It depends where you're at. If you're around Pasay near Okada where there was reclamation of land from Manila Bay and more expansion will continue. It doesn't feel cramped there when driving around nor on the SLEX expressways. Most of the area is vertical high-rise condos. Many folks just take Grab, or Jeepneys to get around. Most don't own cars.
Manila is unlike her neighbouring capital cities who weren't bombed during WWII (It was manila and Krakow that had the greatest losses during that time). Almost all of the proposed plans were scrapped when most of the structures and infrastructures laid in ruins and rebuilding was done in a hasty process, leading to the mess it is today
You did your research well, you even got the U-belt. Cheers bro, on corruption yes it’s actually a culture here. We even say “wag mo ako kakalimutan ah (kapag naging Mayor/Governor etc public official ka)” ~Don’t forget me when you become a government official
I live in one of the upperclass districts in Mandaluyong Manila. You could tell when you walk the streets who are the rich people from the social climbers.
I have to say, I did not greatly enjoy my time in Manila. I've spent some time living in the Philippines, and I'm quite fond of the places I've seen there and the people of those places. That said, Manila was most definitely not at the top of my list of favourites. Even though of course, it being the center of everything, there are some things you might find in Manila that you might struggle to find outside the city. In any case, I harbour no I'll will towards Manila though. Mabuhay! ✌️
@@c6h5choh-cn82 I think it was a nice place to visit. But not somewhere I would prefer to live if I had the choice to live in another city instead. But of course, Manila has a lot of job and educational opportunities. Rural parts of the Philippines can be absolutely gorgeous. But the job opportunities can be pretty limited.
@@Z1tu0 The high cost of living in Manila will (in the long run) neutralize the advantages of any high paying job....hmmm...unless you marry the business owner's daughter 😄 or marry the business owner himself 🤣 I live in the rural parts. Specifically in a cave. I love my cave. You won't believe it, but it's got wi-fi 😁
never seen a youtuber from another country talk about our University Belt, this is nice! University Belt in itself is such a unique neighborhood in Manila, I hope you or other like-minded youtubers cover this more in the future. Love your videos btw!
Thank you for another interesting video! I don't know that I could stand living in such a dense urban environment. I love my rural home in the woods, lol. God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
tbh in this situation, the urban area has expanded beyond the National Capital Region Urbanization already spread up to its neighboring regions, colloquially named Greater Manila Region that includes much of nearby CALABARZON (specifically Cavite, some parts of Batangas, Laguna, and Rizal) and Southern Central Luzon (specifically Pampanga and Bulacan) New subdivisions and urban development has been spreading alot, I myself is within that Greater Manila Region (in the City of Imus, Cavite province) There's already shopping malls and centers every 2-5 miles within the city limits and within a short jeepney ride from my location alone.
Makes me wonder, are Cavite, Bulacan, Rizal and Laguna willing to use some of their land for urbanization? Tokyo is apparently 2194 km² in area while Metro Manila is just 636 km². Do cities like Antipolo (adjacent to Metro Manila although apparently elevated), Bacoor, Imus, San Pedro (Laguna), San Jose Del Monte, etc. willing to be incorporated to NCR to expand urbanization with some pros and cons on the cities there?
@@zjzr08 those cities outside of NCR are expanding because of the amount of people wanting to work in the metro. Most people living in the cities and towns around NCR, work at NCR And many of them are from other provinces, therefore they also naturally expand. Though I do not know if they are willing to be incorporated to NCR, but they are part of the Greater Manila Region (the urban sprawl beyond NCR)
While I do think the padrino system was taken advantage of during the Spanish era, I do think the clan system of Filipino polities not being unified at first was why we were easily taken advantage of. Interestingly though, Cebu I think was officially the first Spanish Filipino city but I guess Intramuros was central to security that many services was central there. The infamous queueing was notorious that my university - the most populous university in the Philippines - had this term "pila ulit pila" which tells how long queues are just to fulfill payments or clearances. Bureaucracy is also an issue needed to untangle as there's so many stuff you need to do in doing business, that sadly it's seen almost required to find connections just to speed things up.
ASEAN in general always have share common problems. Corruption, dynasty politic, zero urban planning and bad bureaucracy. People also share same mindset: littering, breaking traffic law and so on.
@@francisquebachmann7375Could be but I think we have a clan system before (headhunting is a thing in Formosan tribes apparently) but I do think certain non-local influences aggreviated to make within clans than cooperation - the Philippines' many ethnic groups I assume were from different Austronesian migration so they have been pretty different from the start to be fair.
The Philippines is very screwed geographically. It sits in the Pacific Ring of Fire, with Earthquakes and Volcanoes plus the fact that it's also on the route of most Typhoons added to that being a tropical and extremely humid area that experiences El Niño and La Niña. Honestly, it's just missing extreme blizzards and snowstorms into completing the list of natural disasters.
Good research, though I do wish you mentioned that the daytime population balloons by a few more million people due to people commuting into the metropolis from nearby areas (from provinces like Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan, etc.). Take a look at the term "bedroom communities". But good video overall, and quite good pronunciation lol
@@zjzr08 from personal daily experience the trips are fairly easy and straightforward to get a seat on and ride, its the travel time that takes the energy out of you
I like how you actually mentioned the pre colonial polities when talking about Manila. Especially Tondo. When people here Tondo, they always think about this huge slum, but way before the Spanish came, Tondo was a dominant polity in pre colonial Luzon. Its sphere of influence reached as far as Butuan, through the Laguna copper plate inscription, they were more involved and interested in trading and diplomacy than warfare. With that being said, given the state of Manila today, there really is no hope for it to flourish anymore cause its completely unorganised and it lacks basic necessities from top to bottom such as sewage, and drainage systems, poor infrastructure still stuck in the 19th century, and its too overpopulated. A new capital really needs to be built cause the current one is a shihhthole. Should rename the new capital Tondo as a tribute to the Tondoan Lakanate/Tondo polity. Manila is dead...
I've been to Manila before and it's massive but it feels like you're in a rat cage compared to the other cities in the country like Cebu or Puerto Princessa. Reminds me of Night City from Cyberpunk but without the cool scifi tech.
Curious how there's so many people there but it looks like it's mostly houses Meanwhile here in São Paulo where 22 million people live in the greater metropolitan area you see a endless sea of residential towers everywhere
Been to Sao Paulo before (and Rio too hehe), and all I can say is, both Brazilian cities are mostly mountainous, that's why a lot of people there live in residential towers. Our Manila is mostly flat though, plus a lot less effectively managed than SP or RDJ.
each of the houses or buildings in metro manila contain a lot of people. it's not very often to find a place in metro manila where the person lives alone unless it's just one single cheap bedspacer room
Concentrated urbanization. A necessary evil. Too...much...people...suffocating... Anybody know a far away cave where I can retire? 😁With wi-fi and hot water supply of course.😅
Filipinos in general have a very familial culture even extending to the 3rd generation at times that it isn't surprising to see some homes with like 2-3 families in them.
Filipino here from the city of tacloban, I HATE MANILA, I HATE the taxis, I HATE the buses, I HATE the pollution and I HATE the air (except for BGC and Makati) I relieved when ever I see a jeep or a tricycle or a multicab because it's just better than that bad Aircon in the vehicle.
Thank you for producing a feature on my hometown! But I wish you had pointed out the rampant reclamation that is happening on our delicate and vulnerable beloved Manila Bay, right off of Manila and Pasay City. The oligarchs have cronied-up with China state-owned dredging companies to essentially create a “Forest City/Johor on steroids”. … and all at the cost of ecological damage, Strain on water and power resources, and worst of all , destroying the livelihoods of our Fisherfolk 😢
Yes though dhaka have higher population, it has a bigger area. Though the difference is not as pronounced... Manila has 43000 people per square kilometer while dhaka has 34000 people per square kilometer.
Love this content! Clarification though, the Islamized indigenous communities in the southern island collectively known as the BangsaMoro people argue that they were never conquered by Spain so they refuse to be included as part of the "Las Islas Filipinas." The Americans won't accept it so they completed the job through a series of bloody massacres and campaigns to establish dominance and control over these territories and people. In 1906, the Americans declared the Moro rebellion pacified and the map of the Philippines as we know of is now legitimized.
Perhaps but Phils only ranked 10th in the most densed country worldwide.Does not seem to be so visually densed compared to Mumbai, Shanghai,Hong Kong,Tokyo or Dhaka for example.
Its city not country. Manila iss the densest city in the worrld... With tens of thousands per squaare kilometer. Other cities that does have more population have wider area so even though they have more people, they arent as dense and compact.
Manila should limit and reduce its population by encouraging investors in the province in exchange of tax insentives so that the people will voluntary leave Manila, example Bicol and Central Luzon and Batangas area has potential to become a Business District.
Cebu really has to learn from Manila's mistakes. As of the moment it is suffocating on its own growth. If some southerners call manila "Imperial Manila", the same can be said about Cebu siphoning off development and talent from nearby provinces. Hopefully Cebu will rise to be an alternative to Manila but. Man its geography fucks it over
I agree Visayas in general being an archipelago within an archipelago doesn't help it although it makes me wonder if bridge roadways can help this a lot.
7:56 the fact that there is a system which allows people without talent or intelligence to end up in a position of power & wealth due to bloodline or connections is such an insane & rather bias concept to me..
@@Jose.AFT.SaddulI'm from Cebu and Cebu is not the richest you idiot! Do research! Bataan is the richest city in terms of GDP Per Capita while Laguna has the largest GDP in the entire country. Your reference about Cebu being the richest is just the Government Asset which is not a Citizens' Wealth/Economic Indicator. It just simply measures how much resources the Provincial Government has. Do study more about Macroeconomics! You're so cringe!
This is a problem of too much centralization. The same problem happens to countries like South Korea (which is why there is a saying "South Korea is Seoul")
To be honest, albeit colonization is bad and all, the option of having Emilio Aguinaldo a dictator with penchant for murdering his own allies, is not all sunshine and roses.
You forgot to mention an important factor, world war 2. Manila was devastated, 2nd most devastated city in the world after Warsaw actually. Then independence was urgently granted to avoid the cost of reconstruction so all systematic urban planning was thrown out the window, and then you have the massive influx of people from the provinces...
All of the things you mentioned are the reasons why I hated Manila so much. Im from a province not too far South of Manila. I only go there for important reasons and nothing else.
City of Manila in 1958 only have 720,000 population . I left the Philippines in 1958 as 19 years old then. Today Philippines reach to 119,000,000 million soul and poor.
A very imformative video! Yet there is a contradiction. You say that manila just happened, an informal city planning. But why then did the 13mil people move here? They wanted to move, even to slummy conditions becaise of job opportunities and the excitement of a big city. The solution now is to make ot better.
Manila City is the densest city in the World but Metro Manila as a whole isn't even in the Top 5. The only way to decongest Metro Manila is by spreading developments throughout the country. But Instead of bringing investments to other regions, the gov't and the private sector did the dumbest thing by reclaiming more land. GENIUS
By density, it is. While Tokyo has the most populated urban area, the Tokyo Metropolis has a density of 6,169 per squared kilometers. Meanwhile Metro Manila has a density of 41,339 per squared kilometers. Tokyo isn't even in the top 10, it's ranked 32. Manila, Dhaka, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Paris make up the top five.
8:00 the problem is that the law makers here in the Philippines haven't passed any law to legally define what political dynasty is, so section 26 is kinda in a limbo.
One word: discipline. (I'm saying about the heavy traffic) Manila might be congested but the roads are okay. It's just that people love to park wherever they want. Vendors selling on the road. Pedestrians don't know how to use overpasses. Vehicles don't really know how to obey traffic rules. I'm Filipino and worked in Manila for near a decade. Gotta say, those were the worst traffic jams in my lifetime and I've been living in South Cali for a decade now. That's saying something
its not just discipline though, it's really just shitty urban planning with a lack of public transportation go to the large developments in makati-taguig, pasay-paranaque, and other "developed" areas in the city; and the discipline is quite decent enough. Jakarta faced a very similar problem a decade ago and they managed to improved thanks to public transpo
Blaming it on lack of discipline is a cop out by politicians to pass the blame. The perceived lack of discipline is just a symptom of greater problems Metro Manila has overall.
I would say that what you meant by “poor discipline” is one of the symptom of a bad/ineffective system. Cars parked where they do not belong, especially in a place like Manila, isn’t often rooted because the drivers want to, but because they don’t have elsewhere to park (Might be generalizing a bit). While there are “nicer roads”, there definitely still is a huge percentage of poorly maintained roads. Additionally, Manila itself has poor infrastructure to accommodate cars even when the whole metro is designed to be “car-centric”. There aren’t enough mass transportation systems for a metropolitan region that big. In a positive light however, it seems like the whole National Capital Region and surrounding areas will be due for a “rail renaissance” as MRT 7, 4, NSCR, Metro Manila Subway, etc. are being constructed. I JUST hope that they won’t keep getting delayed due to ROW issues or worse, corruption. Though, coming back to your point, to SOME extent, it is also rooted by -by the lack of a better word- “poor” mindset. Excuse me for my poor grammar/spelling mistakes if I made some, it’s night time.
I've read somewhere that despite Manila being dense, it has a lot less road accidents than Jakarta, BKK, and KL. I guess it's because of the heavy traffic that cars run really slow hahaha
pedanticism activated: isn't Monaco technically already the most densest city in the world. As the city of Monaco incomposite's 100% of the country and is completely used. It can't expend anywhere but in to the sea. Or it needs to conquer French territory. On one hand that would be the most bling bling army ever. The issue would be that army just does not want to get dirty. (do you have any idea what it costs to bedazzle a tank with real crystals?)
Dense in definition is an amount of a unit in a given space. So population density is the amount of people living in a defined area. Monaco has 36,000 people, which it’s not quite dense as there are European towns that are the same size of Monaco but boasts more people.
@@sirBrouwer Monaco has an area of 2.1 Square Kilometres, so the population of 38,000 is divided between those 2.1. Even if Monaco was only 1 square kilometer in size, Manila would still be denser.
Metro Manila is a Cluster*uck of a concrete Jungle. It developed that way and will crumble that way. There's no escaping the pis*poor of a job that the earlier city planners did to Metro Manila, We are absolutely left to suffer in a Jungle that you have to cater to instead of the should of: it caters to you. Sidewalks that are fighting for its existance Invisible Public transport Leisure-area-less residentials Vendor-polluted streets Half heatedly constructed sewage system Quantum-mechanics-like distribution lines Non-existent bike lanes
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Speaking of urban planning, while other cities in the country are getting the recognition and are urbanizing too, no planning is in place. Many cities outside Manila are described to be rows of SM Malls beside 2 storey houses, VERY wide roads with no centralized transportation system, and sometimes upper-class developments enroach to mountains or forests (as seen in Cebu).
Baguio for example, was planned by the Americans and hailed as a beautiful city, but with a lack of public transit and urbanization, Baguio experiences heavy traffic during the cool months due to influx of tourists.
The good news is a new attempt at urban planning is being done with New Clark City being built, but concerns over it enroaching over native Aeta lands and especially a lack of public transit would be challenges that the development needs to face.
Btw your pronunciations of the place names were excellent!
Just eminent domain Aeta lands no land is exempt from eminent domain.
I live in Baguio and agree 100%, no planning since the Americans left, no new roads in decades, no bypass, no ring road, all public transport takes you to city centre, so if you're on east side and want to go north, 1st you go to city centre then walk to transfer to go north.
Many roads built "too" Baguio just to bring in tourists.
Vast amount of illegal construction since the 80's allowed by every City Council.
@@emperorjonz9590 Dude, that is the running issue for 500 years now here that has led to indigenous groups embracing the Commies. You really want us to restart those old wars again?
Also large companies building expressways everywhere rather than a much better mass transport systems like trains because the generation of toll fees is quite high.
there are various mass transit transportation being built both commuter rail and rapid transit.
@@flip1sba of course, but its little too late. Many also labby against it.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 and WHO are these people who lobbied against it?
Nothing is too late, Jakarta just built their rapid transit and they are a huge city.
@@flip1sba im just saying what is it now, not what it will be.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 and what is now, there are various railway projects under construction, some almost completed such as LRT-1 extension. I live in Southern Metro Manila and see its progress.
This is actually a very well researched video, i was also really surprised by the Metro Manila-isms you mentioned, as someone from the actual metro. Props to you Khanubis and everyone else who helped shed light on this!
I knew Manila is the densest city in the Philippines but its amazing I didn't think Manila would be denser than even cities in India and China. I would have guessed those places would have taken 1st place for densest cities in the world. Mexico city and Tokyo would have been up there too. But then again we are looking at the current census.
The densest city is Manila itself... not Metro Manila as a whole.
Population density of Metro Tokyo is 3000/Km² while Metro Manila is 21,202/km² apparently...Tokyo still has more space in surrounding cities than Manila's surrounding cities are as a whole.
@@zjzr08though it is already that dense, FOUR CITIES inside Metro Manila have a density of over 40,000 people/km²
Manilla is one city in the metro area, there are 7 other cities, some of which are larger than Manilla itself, it used to be the largest city until recently.
yeah but those "cities" are just suburbs of Manila
Manila is one of 16 cities in Metro Manila, excluding Pateros which technically isn't a city.
He literally said this. Watch the video before you comment
@@sonicvenom8292 Tokyo has 27 Citiee and Los Angeles has 88 Citiee within it.
The metro area is also called Metro Manila, so...
Daniel Burnham also planned Baguio! Baguio was selected to become the summer capital. In November 1901, the American colonial government expropriated lands in Baguio, 14,000 acres, owned by the Ibaloi people, who were forced to sell their land. Baguio was called Kafagway by indigenous peoples. The name Baguio originated in the American period and is derived from the Ibaloi word bagiw (moss), which was then Hispanicized as Baguio. Burnham's plans emphasized improved sanitation, a cohesive aesthetic, and visual reminders of government authority. In Baguio, government structures were built looming from the cliffs above the town. Burnham planned Manila and Baguio, while William Edwards Parsons went to the Philippines in November 1905 to "interpret" the preliminary plans prepared by Burnham for Manila and Baguio and modify these as needed while Burnham left. Baguio's Mansion was designed by Parsons. Parsons also designed the Gabaldon school buildings across the country, inspired by the traditional Filipino houses of bahay kubo and bahay na bato. Daniel Burnham actually had big roles in the creation of master plans for the development of many cities, not just in the Philippines! Including the Plan of Chicago (Riverwalk, Navy Pier, Grant Park, Northerly Island were all part of this plan). The 1909 Plan of Chicago was inspired by plans for Manila, Baguio, downtown DC, and the temporary White City he helped design for the 1893 Columbian Exposition. He also designed several famous buildings like Chicago's Field Museum (the museum was moved from Jackson Park to Grant Park after the exposition), Chicago Union Station and the Reliance and Rookery Buildings, NYC's Flatiron Building, Pittsburgh's Union/Penn Station, and DC's Union Station!
So yeah, it was funny for you to mention DC, since Burnham not only designed DC's Union Station, but also helped plan the current look of downtown DC and the National Mall through the 1902 McMillan Plan. DC was originally designed under the L'Enfant plan by Parisian Pierre L'Enfant, but the McMillan Commission (also known as the Senate Park Commission) reaffirmed and updated L'Enfant's planning principles in their 1902 Plan. The McMillan Plan proposed eliminating the Victorian landscaping of the National Mall and replacing it with an uncomplicated expanse of grass, narrowing the Mall, a reflecting pool on the western end, and permitting the construction of low, Neoclassical museums and cultural centers along the Mall's east-west axis. The Ellipse would remain open space in order to preserve the vista from the White House south to the Washington Monument and the Potomac. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Passenger Terminal, located at what is today New Jersey Avenue NW and Constitution Avenue NW, would be torn down, replaced by Burnham's Union Station. Additionally, the McMillan Plan contemplated constructing clusters of tall, Neoclassical office buildings around Lafayette Square and the Capitol, as well as an extensive system of neighborhood parks and recreational facilities throughout the city. Never formally adopted by the federal government, the McMillan Plan was implemented piecemeal in the decades after its release. The location of the Lincoln Memorial, Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, Union Station, and US Department of Agriculture Building are due to the McMillan Plan. Proposals to construct Arlington Memorial Bridge received a significant boost from the plan as well. The McMillan Plan continues to guide urban planning in and around DC, into the 21st century and has become a part of the federal government's official planning policy for the national capital.
As someone from South East Asia corruption and bad planning is like the norm here. There's a reason people call the ASEAN countries the Asian Balkan.
Balkans but less stabby stabby with each other
We just curse each other in online games 😂@@nunyabiznes33
much harder to get stabby stabby when the other guy is in a different island
Balkans but less stabby stabby with each other because one day we protect each other, the other we bicker like little siblings
@@PetrasJem probably cuz everyone shared the same scars from both European and japanese rule
I doubt that the Philippines intended to focus all their development in one city. A highly populated and underdeveloped major city seems to be a common feature in poorer countries. There simply is less capital to go around, and it tends to concentrate.
Its in a way a negative feedback loop. Its also called by the locals as "imperial" manila for a reason, hugging all the resources while other parts of the country starve with infrastructure funds like in southern lands like mindanao.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578Pretty sure Metro Manila gives more than what it gets from the Internal Revenue Allotment. I think it's more of a case of corruption and a lack of good ideas from the elites regarding the planning of their own cities. Yes it's also a case of too much concentrated development in one area, but I sure would not just throw around the word "Imperial" in a country where political dynasties from everywhere control the state. Take the Kamara, it's literally a legislative chamber with representation from all districts, Metro Manila making up a minority of the seats.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578There's also that shitty political culture where the politicians will really only develop things if it benefits their own businesses. The National Budget is also influenced by this culture. NCR development is a given, but to other provinces and municipalities, it's pretty much decided whether you're on good terms with the top party on whether you get priority with the funding.
@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 Locals, you mean Bisaya. Literally only Visayans like to pull the "imperial manila" card when they also have big cities in the south, it's not Manila's problem that their local governments are so inept in attracting investments and finding partners to build infrastructure.
@@kzm-cb5mr don't lump all visayas on your propaganda. only cebuanos are bitter about that, some of them even refuse to speak tagalog.
As Indonesian, a fellow ASEAN , I know what Philippines feel about corruption, nepotism, and political dynasty. That's ASEAN for you 😂
Philippines' case is unique, it's the fact that the people who tried hard to overthrow the dynasty system, were the ones who voted to bring their sons & daughters into power.. I don't even think that the EDSA Revolution can be repeated anymore, today our individual rights are diminished, and in the end nothing has changed...
@@rigobertoitachijohnsontrue, nothing ever happens
Your pronunciation of the names of the places is almost perfect
You know what, I'll take it
@@KhAnubisHe’s lying but you are better than most Americans that even live here 😂
Agreed. Although he should note that Manila city proper's slum district is pronounced Ton-DO with a stress on the second syllable :))
Over the years, Metro Manila's rapid urbanization was insane and empty land is becoming limited, but the neighboring provinces like Bulacan and Cavite have empty land. Today, Metro Manila lacks public transport, but we're still building new ways of public transport including new rapid teansit lines and a new commuter rail that replaces the national railway. Rapid urbanization also happened during Martial Law.
It’s so unfortunate how long it’s taking to construct the new rail Lines. If you pass by commonwealth you can see the trains for the new train line already rusting. And they’ve never even been used yet which is unfortunate. The government shouldn’t have had those trains delivered until the line was finished
its not just MM, all major cities around asia had insane rapid urbanization, the difference is that majority of the countries PRIORITIZE building mass transportation in order to achieve productivity while the people in power in Philippine prioritize their own revenues more than building better infastructure for mass transport, in fact that was their last concern,
@@sushisushi_915those countries are about done with their urbanization though, pH is just getting started
@@gangstagummybear3432 ph is getting started? when? it has been 70 yrs since WW2, and PH is still getting started? oh yes i hear that every year, when i was in school my my professor said pH is ”developing", now its been 20yrs, 20yrs have pass still only commuter 3 lines, do you know how many lines have been built every year in neighboring SEA countries in the last 20yrs? have you not visited abroad ? I have and Its valid to compare urbanization of PH even to the neighboring SEA countries, ph is far delayed when it comes to infrastructure for transport mainly to due government incompetence period.
@@Jose.AFT.SaddulI never get why they were already ported over when the stations aren't finished yet - they're apparently models from 2019 and it's already 5 years after (and I think the latest line is supposedly finished like 2 years ago but [sadly expected] hasn't opened yet).
8:10 the patron systems originates from the roman republic. That tradition was inherited be the iberian, italian (it's more present in the south), and greeks, as well as places that were colonized by the iberians.
So, the Philippines inherited a Roman tradition for some reason.
333 years of spanish rule begets that, i guess.
@@xXxSkyViperxXxExactly this. There's a video by Asianometry that (indirectly) explains how patronage came to be in the Philippines, though it's more about why the country struggles to implement land reform.
Really interesting how Philippines inherited both Roman and Chinese traditions directly or indirectly
Philippines the true successor to Rome
@@AureliusLaurentius1099😂🤣😆🙄😒... It's funny but not really.
In the US, the top 12 densest municipalities in the US are all in the NYC metro area, with the top four all in Hudson County, NJ. Guttenberg, Union City, West New York, and Hoboken. To put things into perspective for Guttenberg, over 12K people (in 2020 census) live in a land area that's just .19 square miles (total area of .24 square miles)! And I call it the Whittier, Alaska of New Jersey because of the Galaxy Towers! A trio of 44-story octagonal towers (with two 16-story connecting structures) built right on the Palisades, with over a thousand residential units (began as rentals but was converted to condos in 1980), retail, and office space! It takes its name from Johannes Gutenberg as it used to be populated by many Germans but now it's very Cuban. Hoboken has been nicknamed the Mile Square City, but it actually occupies about 1.25 sq mi (3.2 sq km) of land! Hoboken is the location of the first officially recorded game of baseball (in 1846) and of the Stevens Institute of Technology, one of the oldest technological universities in the US. It is also known as the birthplace and hometown of Frank Sinatra! The character of the city has changed from an artsy industrial vibe from the days when Maxwell House coffee, Lipton tea, Hostess Cupcakes, and Wonder Bread called Hoboken home, to one of trendy shops and condominiums. Hoboken even has an active NJT rail terminal, which is also served by ferries, PATH, light-rail, and NJT buses. Because of the lack of space, these small dense places like Hoboken and Weehawken bury their bodies in North Bergen, which is why a good portion of North Bergen (still in Hudson County) has cemeteries. Hoboken hasn't had a car crash-related fatality since 2017 thanks to making its streets safe for cyclists and pedestrians! Under Mayor Ravi Bhalla, Hoboken implemented daylighting, installing flexible posts, rain gardens or racks to prevent cars from parking at street corners and improve visibility between pedestrians and drivers! They also reduced the limit from 25 mph to 20 mph in 2022!
Alongside Guttenberg, Union City and West New York are known as Havana on the Hudson because of their Cuban population. Union City is also known as the "Embroidery Capital of the US". Before Latinos immigrated, German Americans and Dutch dominated the area. Along with Swiss and Austrian immigrants, they founded the European-style lace making industries for which they were famous. And the introduction of Schiffli lace machines in Hudson County earned Union City its embroidery capital title. Jersey City and Weehawken, both in Hudson County, are within the top 20 municipalities in the US as well. In the 2020 census, Weehawken had a population of 17,197, living in a land area of just .78 sq miles! Weehawken is of course famous for the Weehawken Dueling Grounds, the site of the Hamilton-Burr duel. The boulder that Hamilton rested on after he was shot is still there. Hamilton actually helped design the streets of downtown Jersey City! In 2020, Jersey City had a population of 292,449 living in a land area of 14.74 sq miles! Redevelopment of the Jersey City waterfront has made the city one of the largest centers of banking and finance in the US and has led to the district and city being nicknamed Wall Street West. These places mentioned have experienced a housing boom thanks to the Hudson-Bergen Light-Rail, which connects places like North Bergen, Union City, Weehawken, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Bayonne. In Jersey City's case, both them and Hoboken have PATH stations and HBLR stations and have taken advantage through building TOD around these stations, alongside miles of protected bike lanes with Citi Bike bikeshare. Not just downtown either, Journal Square has densified too thanks to it being a major bus/PATH hub for NJT buses and frequent jitneys. NY Waterway has different stops for its ferries in Jersey City, Hoboken, and Weehawken, as well as Edgewater in Bergen County, to connect with Lower Manhattan and Midtown.
Metro Manila alone is 13 million but Greater Manila including CALABARZON and Central Luzon are around 25 million and we are talking about continuous urban area.
Jakarta has one light rail and one metro line, less than that of Metro Manila but it has an extensive commuter rail system.
I get adding Metro Manila but Central Luzon is already farmland territory that I think it's not helpful to add it...there is a Greater Manila Area which has 28 million people but the density shrinks from Metro's 21K to Mega's 3.5K (includes whole surrounding provinces).
That being said an expansive rail system connecting these provinces with Metro Manila may be helpful to develop these provinces while also giving easy access to services in the Metro.
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it's tomorrow AND i'm gonna have school at 10am
but still looking forward to this!
i'm gonna give my opinions in this comment when the vid goes live and i get back from school
Fair enough, I normally upload on Sundays partially for this reason
A week's worth of a belated birthday present from a resident of this sprawling metro!
This is surprisingly well-researched. You actually went beyond the usual suspects, poor urban planning, and actually touched on the nature of corruption in the Philippines. You missed a major point though: The role of big businesses in the Philippines.
Since the government is so corrupt, there was a drive to privatize critical government services in the hopes of making it more efficient. The problem with making public services owned by big businesses is that the incentive shift from serving the public, into making money. Big businesses built expressways instead of railways so they'll have more profits in toll fees and gas. This is most evident in the absence of public spaces as well. There's a reason we have the BIGGEST malls in the world, and that's because the SM group, the Ayala Corp., Robinson, and the Villars actively buy public spaces in urban areas to turn into their malls. For the local cities, of course, malls generate more revenue than parks, but that of course remove green spaces that could've helped with the bad air quality in urban areas.
But overall, your video gives an accurate depiction of the reality of urbanization in the Philippines. And your pronunciation is also spot on. You've earned yourself a subscriber, mate. Cheers!
Something similar happened in Costa Rica. Between 1950-1980, San Jose exploded in population, as it was the one place in the country with industrial jobs instead of agriculture.
The problem: The government didn't really know what to do, and left urban development to each individual municipality rather than to a higher authority. This led to a complete urban disorder, specially in southern SJ (Alajuelita, Desamparados, Aserri,...)
Traffic here is shit for how small the city is (2.5 million ppl), and traffic projects have to cross so many legal hurdles that our main highway loop around SJ (called Circunvalacion) took 7 decades to finish...
Nowadays the city is not growing so fast, but that is mostly cuz ppl now move to nearby cities (Heredia, Alajuela, Cartago) and it seems they are going a similar path XD
Nice one. I’d love to visit there someday.
Hopefully our rail line extensions will be done by then. Commuting here is an absolute nightmare as it is right now.
@@theelevatedone2536 luckily we got joyride or grab 😂
@@mr.slimeytThey're overpriced. If you are going around the city without anything heavy and big, we have Angkas.
@@NanobanaKinakoNot a problem if they come from America or Western Europe...their Uber are probably even higher price than us but they earn a lot more.
This is one of the better videos in TH-cam. Thank you!
just subscribed recently and was surprised by you uploading about where I lived, i know yall talked about manila-metro manila in relation, but as a Quezon City native I'm always fascinated by how perceptions of "southies" "northies" "tondo/manila" energies/stereotypes have come about, historically i mean! thanks again for the video i've been having a kick learning about geopolitics and thematic history on youtube lately
The biggest problem is lack of actual planning. Let alone strategic planning. Metro Manila has 16+1 cities with their own local authorities. Most of them held by a political dynasty hell bent on keeping their power.
Coastal cities have given their blessing for more reclamation, worsening floods, building development for rich people to play in.
Metro Manila does not really lack land. It just sucks at strategic planning, much of the slums are low rise structures. Coupled with a car-first mindset of policymakers, it is no wonder the go-to solution they resort to are road-widenings and more highways. The latest brain-dead project is putting up a highway along the river Pasig.
It's not the lack of actual planning (manila has a masterplan already design), it's enforcing those plans. Leaders being elected did not care about those master plans until very recently.
I am getting São Paulo vibes, but denser
I knew it Manila is just an Asian favela
The slums here are very similar to what Brazilian slum is.
@@NanobanaKinako same materials and climate
Yorme Isko has his chance in the City Hall, and he almost blew it before he ran for president (where, of course, he lost to BBM). Now he betrays who he once considered his running mate.
Agree, the betrayal has cost him his reputation
4:36 looks more like India than Manila. That's an auto rickshaw, not a tricycle. Plus the Indian sign on the right.
Yep, and most of them are sold here by Bajaj.
Filipinos call them tricycles though.
@@josephinepura525there's a difference between an auto rickshaw and a tricycle. For one, auto rickshaws are metered.
For me the overcentralization came first from the Spaniards due to trying to consolidate power to easily facilitate trade and customs in Manila for the international trade, then the US excacerbated it due to the challenge of the vast archipelago, its just that Philippines was forced not by the countries but by its geological advantage and disadvantage to overcentralize due to the natural flow of modernization and increasing rural to urban logistics. Radial Road 10 has seen significant upgrades through out the years but the sheer volume of traffic of goods that comes out of the Port of Manila (North and South Harbor) is still significant enough that every week at midnight, there is significant traffic at Radial Road 10 which often bleeds out to other major highways of the city. EDSA, an outdated highway, was just overwhelmed and the lack of space created one of the worst highways to go to the point that arterial and collectors are used by people to alleviate and escape the traffic.
I’ve been looking for this info, I’m so glad to get a video on it. Not even kidding
the only time i heard someone correctly pronuncing laguna de bay
Almost. But Bay is supposed to be two syllables as it refers to a town in Laguna province - Ba-ý or Ba-é.
Also fun fact: it's a lake and not a bay hehe.
@@zjzr08 to be fair, laguna de bay literally means “lake of bay,” which bay’s etymology is entirely unrelated to a body of water
You can thank the Japanese. After WW2 people flocked into the then levelled Manila (the Americans bombed it to get rid of the Japanese).
True. WWII stopped the Burnham plan in its tracks, and destroyed a lot of Manila's infrastructure(it was the second most destroyed city in WWII after Warsaw), including the literal tracks, since pre-war Manila had a tram system that it conspicuously lacks today. At least the Japanese helped rebuild some infrastructure after the war, though it's sad that they still refuse to teach the full history of WWII and Japan's actions to the Japanese people.
and now JICA by Japanese is doing the metro manila planning....
@@xXxSkyViperxXxHey fairs fair. Their war wrecked Manila and the city planning during WW2, now they get to fix it lol
@@sonicvenom8292 Japan teaching WW2 in schools: Nothin' happened. Really.....War crimes what? ...Oh look! It's already lunchtime. 😁
Don't forget that the japanese also burned most of it
7:22 Those two areas aren't separated by a highway. A part of it is only separated by a wall, and you can go between those two areas beside the mall.
dang good research. a good condensed summary.
That is why the Philippines is slowly developing a new capital city up in the north, to move the administrative buildings and other businesses away from Metro Manila.
It's not as easy as you make it sound though, there's plenty of resistance. The past administration moved DOTr (Department of Transportation) Central Office to Clark, but this admin's new Secretary of Transportation moved it back to Manila. Employees were tired of having to ride shuttles to and back, and only 10% of families moved to Clark which is the government's goal in the first place.
@@LuisSec I never said it would be easy, every country who moved their capitals had at least 10-15 years to adjust and become stable.
Good news: new capital
Bad news: More taxes 😄
It depends where you're at. If you're around Pasay near Okada where there was reclamation of land from Manila Bay and more expansion will continue. It doesn't feel cramped there when driving around nor on the SLEX expressways. Most of the area is vertical high-rise condos. Many folks just take Grab, or Jeepneys to get around. Most don't own cars.
Manila is unlike her neighbouring capital cities who weren't bombed during WWII (It was manila and Krakow that had the greatest losses during that time). Almost all of the proposed plans were scrapped when most of the structures and infrastructures laid in ruins and rebuilding was done in a hasty process, leading to the mess it is today
You did your research well, you even got the U-belt. Cheers bro, on corruption yes it’s actually a culture here. We even say “wag mo ako kakalimutan ah (kapag naging Mayor/Governor etc public official ka)” ~Don’t forget me when you become a government official
It helps that Filipinos is mostly proficient in English and makes it much easier to give information and where to search for them I guess hehe.
@@zjzr08 true!
I live in one of the upperclass districts in Mandaluyong Manila. You could tell when you walk the streets who are the rich people from the social climbers.
Don't the rich people actually look more casual than social climbers and wear like simple shirts outside and such, hehe.
I have to say, I did not greatly enjoy my time in Manila. I've spent some time living in the Philippines, and I'm quite fond of the places I've seen there and the people of those places. That said, Manila was most definitely not at the top of my list of favourites. Even though of course, it being the center of everything, there are some things you might find in Manila that you might struggle to find outside the city.
In any case, I harbour no I'll will towards Manila though. Mabuhay! ✌️
Most Filipinos have a love-hate relationship with Manila... We are frustrated by many things about it, but deep down inside, we also love it.
@@dayangmarikit6860 who are we? You talk like you speak for all Filipinos lol
Been to Manila 20 years ago. Wanted to go back home immediately after the plane landed 🤣
@@c6h5choh-cn82 I think it was a nice place to visit. But not somewhere I would prefer to live if I had the choice to live in another city instead. But of course, Manila has a lot of job and educational opportunities. Rural parts of the Philippines can be absolutely gorgeous. But the job opportunities can be pretty limited.
@@Z1tu0 The high cost of living in Manila will (in the long run) neutralize the advantages of any high paying job....hmmm...unless you marry the business owner's daughter 😄 or marry the business owner himself 🤣
I live in the rural parts. Specifically in a cave. I love my cave. You won't believe it, but it's got wi-fi 😁
never seen a youtuber from another country talk about our University Belt, this is nice!
University Belt in itself is such a unique neighborhood in Manila, I hope you or other like-minded youtubers cover this more in the future. Love your videos btw!
Thank you for another interesting video! I don't know that I could stand living in such a dense urban environment. I love my rural home in the woods, lol.
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
watching this from ubelt is crazy
tbh in this situation, the urban area has expanded beyond the National Capital Region
Urbanization already spread up to its neighboring regions, colloquially named Greater Manila Region that includes much of nearby CALABARZON (specifically Cavite, some parts of Batangas, Laguna, and Rizal) and Southern Central Luzon (specifically Pampanga and Bulacan)
New subdivisions and urban development has been spreading alot, I myself is within that Greater Manila Region (in the City of Imus, Cavite province)
There's already shopping malls and centers every 2-5 miles within the city limits and within a short jeepney ride from my location alone.
Makes me wonder, are Cavite, Bulacan, Rizal and Laguna willing to use some of their land for urbanization? Tokyo is apparently 2194 km² in area while Metro Manila is just 636 km².
Do cities like Antipolo (adjacent to Metro Manila although apparently elevated), Bacoor, Imus, San Pedro (Laguna), San Jose Del Monte, etc. willing to be incorporated to NCR to expand urbanization with some pros and cons on the cities there?
@@zjzr08 those cities outside of NCR are expanding because of the amount of people wanting to work in the metro.
Most people living in the cities and towns around NCR, work at NCR
And many of them are from other provinces, therefore they also naturally expand.
Though I do not know if they are willing to be incorporated to NCR, but they are part of the Greater Manila Region (the urban sprawl beyond NCR)
Excellent video!
Which urban oasis is next?
While I do think the padrino system was taken advantage of during the Spanish era, I do think the clan system of Filipino polities not being unified at first was why we were easily taken advantage of. Interestingly though, Cebu I think was officially the first Spanish Filipino city but I guess Intramuros was central to security that many services was central there.
The infamous queueing was notorious that my university - the most populous university in the Philippines - had this term "pila ulit pila" which tells how long queues are just to fulfill payments or clearances. Bureaucracy is also an issue needed to untangle as there's so many stuff you need to do in doing business, that sadly it's seen almost required to find connections just to speed things up.
ASEAN in general always have share common problems. Corruption, dynasty politic, zero urban planning and bad bureaucracy. People also share same mindset: littering, breaking traffic law and so on.
Because of Dynasty culture (from china) and Sultanate Culture (from arabs???) we inherited both negative traits.
@@francisquebachmann7375Could be but I think we have a clan system before (headhunting is a thing in Formosan tribes apparently) but I do think certain non-local influences aggreviated to make within clans than cooperation - the Philippines' many ethnic groups I assume were from different Austronesian migration so they have been pretty different from the start to be fair.
The Philippines is very screwed geographically.
It sits in the Pacific Ring of Fire, with Earthquakes and Volcanoes plus the fact that it's also on the route of most Typhoons added to that being a tropical and extremely humid area that experiences El Niño and La Niña.
Honestly, it's just missing extreme blizzards and snowstorms into completing the list of natural disasters.
Good research, though I do wish you mentioned that the daytime population balloons by a few more million people due to people commuting into the metropolis from nearby areas (from provinces like Cavite, Laguna, Bulacan, etc.). Take a look at the term "bedroom communities". But good video overall, and quite good pronunciation lol
Surprisingly Manila traffic can be easy in non heavy hours and there are times even the rail transit has spot to take seats.
@@zjzr08 from personal daily experience the trips are fairly easy and straightforward to get a seat on and ride, its the travel time that takes the energy out of you
Mumbai: hold my ganges water
I like how you actually mentioned the pre colonial polities when talking about Manila. Especially Tondo. When people here Tondo, they always think about this huge slum, but way before the Spanish came, Tondo was a dominant polity in pre colonial Luzon. Its sphere of influence reached as far as Butuan, through the Laguna copper plate inscription, they were more involved and interested in trading and diplomacy than warfare. With that being said, given the state of Manila today, there really is no hope for it to flourish anymore cause its completely unorganised and it lacks basic necessities from top to bottom such as sewage, and drainage systems, poor infrastructure still stuck in the 19th century, and its too overpopulated. A new capital really needs to be built cause the current one is a shihhthole. Should rename the new capital Tondo as a tribute to the Tondoan Lakanate/Tondo polity. Manila is dead...
A wall of complete and total misinformation for sure
Actually well put as someone who lives a province right next to NCR(Rizal)
I've been to Manila before and it's massive but it feels like you're in a rat cage compared to the other cities in the country like Cebu or Puerto Princessa. Reminds me of Night City from Cyberpunk but without the cool scifi tech.
Curious how there's so many people there but it looks like it's mostly houses
Meanwhile here in São Paulo where 22 million people live in the greater metropolitan area you see a endless sea of residential towers everywhere
Been to Sao Paulo before (and Rio too hehe), and all I can say is, both Brazilian cities are mostly mountainous, that's why a lot of people there live in residential towers. Our Manila is mostly flat though, plus a lot less effectively managed than SP or RDJ.
each of the houses or buildings in metro manila contain a lot of people. it's not very often to find a place in metro manila where the person lives alone unless it's just one single cheap bedspacer room
Concentrated urbanization. A necessary evil. Too...much...people...suffocating...
Anybody know a far away cave where I can retire? 😁With wi-fi and hot water supply of course.😅
Filipinos in general have a very familial culture even extending to the 3rd generation at times that it isn't surprising to see some homes with like 2-3 families in them.
Filipino here from the city of tacloban, I HATE MANILA, I HATE the taxis, I HATE the buses, I HATE the pollution and I HATE the air (except for BGC and Makati) I relieved when ever I see a jeep or a tricycle or a multicab because it's just better than that bad Aircon in the vehicle.
Har har har har
I swear yal bgc and Makati people are oblivious to ALOT of Manila
Been to Manila 20 years ago. Wanted to go back home immediately after the plane landed 🤣
Thank you for producing a feature on my hometown!
But I wish you had pointed out the rampant reclamation that is happening on our delicate and vulnerable beloved Manila Bay, right off of Manila and Pasay City.
The oligarchs have cronied-up with China state-owned dredging companies to essentially create a “Forest City/Johor on steroids”. … and all at the cost of ecological damage, Strain on water and power resources, and worst of all , destroying the livelihoods of our Fisherfolk 😢
is it denser than Dhaka?
Yes though dhaka have higher population, it has a bigger area. Though the difference is not as pronounced...
Manila has 43000 people per square kilometer while dhaka has 34000 people per square kilometer.
because Manila is a tiny city in both land area and population. There are much bigger cities in the Philippines, like Quezon City
2:02 oh no the Spani- BRUNEI JUMPSCARE
Love this content! Clarification though, the Islamized indigenous communities in the southern island collectively known as the BangsaMoro people argue that they were never conquered by Spain so they refuse to be included as part of the "Las Islas Filipinas." The Americans won't accept it so they completed the job through a series of bloody massacres and campaigns to establish dominance and control over these territories and people. In 1906, the Americans declared the Moro rebellion pacified and the map of the Philippines as we know of is now legitimized.
Perhaps but Phils only ranked 10th in the most densed country worldwide.Does not seem to be so visually densed compared to Mumbai, Shanghai,Hong Kong,Tokyo or Dhaka for example.
Its city not country. Manila iss the densest city in the worrld... With tens of thousands per squaare kilometer. Other cities that does have more population have wider area so even though they have more people, they arent as dense and compact.
Manila should limit and reduce its population by encouraging investors in the province in exchange of tax insentives so that the people will voluntary leave Manila, example Bicol and Central Luzon and Batangas area has potential to become a Business District.
No one is talking about that adorable plushie, which is an absolute dead ringer for KhAnubis? C’mon!
Is this a re-upload ? i'm sure this came out a few days ago 🤔🤔
Thank God for the Spanish and their reconquista.
Cebu really has to learn from Manila's mistakes. As of the moment it is suffocating on its own growth. If some southerners call manila "Imperial Manila", the same can be said about Cebu siphoning off development and talent from nearby provinces. Hopefully Cebu will rise to be an alternative to Manila but. Man its geography fucks it over
I agree Visayas in general being an archipelago within an archipelago doesn't help it although it makes me wonder if bridge roadways can help this a lot.
7:56 the fact that there is a system which allows people without talent or intelligence to end up in a position of power & wealth due to bloodline or connections is such an insane & rather bias concept to me..
It's more about trust in a corrupted way so I get why they do it while I also agree it's not good.
Technically, that is not "central Luzon". There is an actual region called Central Luzon which is just north of Metro Manila.
Manila is a blight on the Earth.
Your grammar is a blight on the earth.
Sadly the provinces get left behind. : (
Depends on the province.
Cebu is the richest and has an economy comparable to NCR
@@Jose.AFT.Saddul yeah. Cebu City is the closest, less dense version of Manila that you can get out of the Philippines lol
@@barrs817 true. Davao is the only other city that comes close to
@@Jose.AFT.SaddulI'm from Cebu and Cebu is not the richest you idiot! Do research! Bataan is the richest city in terms of GDP Per Capita while Laguna has the largest GDP in the entire country. Your reference about Cebu being the richest is just the Government Asset which is not a Citizens' Wealth/Economic Indicator. It just simply measures how much resources the Provincial Government has. Do study more about Macroeconomics! You're so cringe!
This is a moronic thing to make a spectacle of, lol rural areas will always be left behind from major cities, not just ph
Macau is the densest city in the world not Manila.
It’s a Special Administrative Region, not a city.
You should have added Manila rate and provincial rate
Good point...different minimum wage based on region and NCR's gap is actually significant.
This is a problem of too much centralization. The same problem happens to countries like South Korea (which is why there is a saying "South Korea is Seoul")
To be honest, albeit colonization is bad and all, the option of having Emilio Aguinaldo a dictator with penchant for murdering his own allies, is not all sunshine and roses.
You forgot to mention an important factor, world war 2. Manila was devastated, 2nd most devastated city in the world after Warsaw actually. Then independence was urgently granted to avoid the cost of reconstruction so all systematic urban planning was thrown out the window, and then you have the massive influx of people from the provinces...
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I keep coming back to Manila. No place in the world like Manila.
All of the things you mentioned are the reasons why I hated Manila so much. Im from a province not too far South of Manila. I only go there for important reasons and nothing else.
There's no denying the strategic location tho. It'll retain influence even if the country completely decentralize.
Can you make a video on Dhaka?
Do Iloilo City please!
City of Manila in 1958 only have 720,000 population . I left the Philippines in 1958 as 19 years old then. Today Philippines reach to 119,000,000 million soul and poor.
the 13 million you mention, is the population of Metro Manila. the city of Manila has just 1.8million (w/ a density of 43k)
Did you watch the whole video? He did mentions that information....
Just finished the video. And yes he does mention this.
Watch fully before commenting
PHILIPPINES MENTIONED 🗣‼‼‼ (it's about Manila being the densest city in the world)
Speak all the negative that you want, KhAnubis. I was born and raised here. It's 98% sht
I'm glad I don't live in that hell hole
Been to Manila 20 years ago. Wanted to go back home immediately after the plane landed 🤣
A very imformative video! Yet there is a contradiction. You say that manila just happened, an informal city planning. But why then did the 13mil people move here? They wanted to move, even to slummy conditions becaise of job opportunities and the excitement of a big city. The solution now is to make ot better.
The greatest tax machine of all time
The name Intramuros, logically enough, means "within the walls."
Provincial Rate wage made Metro Manila over populated and dense.
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Manila City is the densest city in the World but Metro Manila as a whole isn't even in the Top 5.
The only way to decongest Metro Manila is by spreading developments throughout the country. But Instead of bringing investments to other regions, the gov't and the private sector did the dumbest thing by reclaiming more land. GENIUS
By density, it is. While Tokyo has the most populated urban area, the Tokyo Metropolis has a density of 6,169 per squared kilometers. Meanwhile Metro Manila has a density of 41,339 per squared kilometers. Tokyo isn't even in the top 10, it's ranked 32. Manila, Dhaka, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Paris make up the top five.
Burnham Plan (1905) envisioned Manila as a city for 200,000 people.
That's why I dont have a plan to live in Manila, near provinces would be better for me
Maybe put another city someplace, damn
There’s more than 13 million
8:00 the problem is that the law makers here in the Philippines haven't passed any law to legally define what political dynasty is, so section 26 is kinda in a limbo.
Political dynasty is unofficially defined as "your family is a political dynasty, my family is the people's political destiny." 😄🤣🤣
One word: discipline. (I'm saying about the heavy traffic)
Manila might be congested but the roads are okay. It's just that people love to park wherever they want. Vendors selling on the road. Pedestrians don't know how to use overpasses. Vehicles don't really know how to obey traffic rules.
I'm Filipino and worked in Manila for near a decade. Gotta say, those were the worst traffic jams in my lifetime and I've been living in South Cali for a decade now. That's saying something
its not just discipline though, it's really just shitty urban planning with a lack of public transportation
go to the large developments in makati-taguig, pasay-paranaque, and other "developed" areas in the city; and the discipline is quite decent enough.
Jakarta faced a very similar problem a decade ago and they managed to improved thanks to public transpo
Ban cars
Blaming it on lack of discipline is a cop out by politicians to pass the blame. The perceived lack of discipline is just a symptom of greater problems Metro Manila has overall.
I would say that what you meant by “poor discipline” is one of the symptom of a bad/ineffective system.
Cars parked where they do not belong, especially in a place like Manila, isn’t often rooted because the drivers want to, but because they don’t have elsewhere to park (Might be generalizing a bit). While there are “nicer roads”, there definitely still is a huge percentage of poorly maintained roads.
Additionally, Manila itself has poor infrastructure to accommodate cars even when the whole metro is designed to be “car-centric”. There aren’t enough mass transportation systems for a metropolitan region that big. In a positive light however, it seems like the whole National Capital Region and surrounding areas will be due for a “rail renaissance” as MRT 7, 4, NSCR, Metro Manila Subway, etc. are being constructed. I JUST hope that they won’t keep getting delayed due to ROW issues or worse, corruption.
Though, coming back to your point, to SOME extent, it is also rooted by -by the lack of a better word- “poor” mindset.
Excuse me for my poor grammar/spelling mistakes if I made some, it’s night time.
I've read somewhere that despite Manila being dense, it has a lot less road accidents than Jakarta, BKK, and KL.
I guess it's because of the heavy traffic that cars run really slow hahaha
You know metro manila is different from manila city per se
pedanticism activated: isn't Monaco technically already the most densest city in the world.
As the city of Monaco incomposite's 100% of the country and is completely used. It can't expend anywhere but in to the sea.
Or it needs to conquer French territory.
On one hand that would be the most bling bling army ever. The issue would be that army just does not want to get dirty. (do you have any idea what it costs to bedazzle a tank with real crystals?)
Dense in definition is an amount of a unit in a given space. So population density is the amount of people living in a defined area. Monaco has 36,000 people, which it’s not quite dense as there are European towns that are the same size of Monaco but boasts more people.
@@blazingfire_0712 but non of those are also such tiny country that it fits in the park of a other city.
Country, not city. The slums is always denser than rich villas lol. 😅 @@sirBrouwer
@@sirBrouwer Monaco has an area of 2.1 Square Kilometres, so the population of 38,000 is divided between those 2.1. Even if Monaco was only 1 square kilometer in size, Manila would still be denser.
Never been to Monaco, but as a resident of Metro Manila, density here is at a whole different level than Monaco HAHAHA
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Metro Manila is a Cluster*uck of a concrete Jungle. It developed that way and will crumble that way.
There's no escaping the pis*poor of a job that the earlier city planners did to Metro Manila, We are absolutely left to suffer in a Jungle that you have to cater to instead of the should of: it caters to you.
Sidewalks that are fighting for its existance
Invisible Public transport
Leisure-area-less residentials
Vendor-polluted streets
Half heatedly constructed sewage system
Quantum-mechanics-like distribution lines
Non-existent bike lanes