Chapter 1: Overview of Real

Estate in the Philippines

URBAN
PLANNING
DIANA GO
URBAN PLANNING
World -renowned Filipino architect and urban planner
Felino Palafox Jr. said at a conference regarding urban
planning:
Decentralization and multiple land use dev’ts are
urban planning concepts that are fast becoming the norm
insofar as developing new communities are concerned.
In the philippines, insutrial estates with its mix of
industrial and office buildings have proven to be the more
efficient mode of development. Industrial estates have
since evolved into a more advanced form-business parks.
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Business parks, said the Urban Land Institue, are
developments contain a number of separate
infrastructures catering to:
📌 offices, industries, supporting uses
🏰 open spaces that are planned, designed, built
and managed on integrated coordinated basis
Perfect for multinationals, light industries and
emerging high technology firms.

🔨 warehouses, industrial buildings,

🏈 residential and recreational buildings
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An on-going 15.5 hectare mixed and multi-use development, which
showcases his ideal urban planning concepts.

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Homes, offices , schools, worships, entertainment, health care shopping,
recreational and cultural centers into one area in a park like setting.

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 Chapter 1: Overview of Real
Estate in the Philippines

REGIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
“We are dependent on the investment of the capital.”
-William H. Taft 1908
Since Metro Manila is already congested, there are a
number of regional centers that have been developed to ease
congestion, traffic, unemployment, squatting and pollution.

👩 Dr. Cynthia D. Turingan, an urban and regional planning

professorat the University of the Philippines (UP), said that the
social dimension is missing in the development in both urban and
rural areas in the Philippines. Thus, it prevents the benefits of
development programs to reach the intended recipients-people
who are at the grassroot level.

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 An example of this is that
some of the industrial
estates workforce
requirements have to be
imported from other towns,
because of the
inappropriate skills of the
local people in these
industrial estates.
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 She noted that most of the
development concepts we have
are from the first world countries
because the finances for these
programs come from them. She
recommend that instead of
relying on the First world, the
Philippines has to review its
priorities and targets to come up
with its own concepts of
development.
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😸 Lack of knowledge of program locales
and accurate documentation before,
during and after implementation of
programs.
🍒 Information on regional sites and
countryside are inaccurate or some
unavilable.
Agencies cannot show methodology
🐟 on research or in system.

😒 Based on wrong analysis/hypotheses

informations lead to misdirected
development efforts.
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Dr. Cynthia Turingon credits Subic
Bay Metropolitan Authority
(SBMA) in terms of mobilizing
large-scale grassroot level Non-government
employment. organizations
(NGO’s)credited for
Growing development of providing needed
cooperativism , where people are support.
able to control their livelihood,
basic sustenance and freedom of
choices.
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However, Alex Magno, a political scientistat UP noted that Subic is quickly turning as
labor is more expensive than in China and Vietnam. And no virtually domestic and and
foreign tourism to stimulate the local economy. So investors hire migrants for their
new skills instead of locales since you can’t convert prostitutes into chip-maker.
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