Philippine government efforts to preserve historic Manila

Years of decay and neglect have left the city of Manila a shadow of what it once was and growing urbanisation, pollution, and a reputation for violence have pushed many away.
But there have been efforts to revitalise the city and preserve its historic buildings.

Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports from Manila.

#Philippines #Manila #ManilaHeritage

[blazingfire_]

Rebuilding old structures are possible today, through old photographs or old blueprints. Materials for rebuilding those are now cheaper because of modern technology. Many European countries are rebuilding their classical buildings in an effort to bring back the beauty of the city from the growing ugly modernist Architecture.

[banarkoy]

Ibalik ang dating ganda, kaayusan, kalinisan at sigla ng Maynila.
Bring back the Great Manila.

[ryanbeltran]

Don't know if it's possible, but they really should try to restore/rebuild some of the old buildings and streets. I've become a bit of a nerd for architecture so learning how the Philippines in general used to have a bunch of cities with interesting architecture with European/Filipino influence interested me and is disappointing how the history was destroyed but never seriously restored like it could've been.

If you look at some photos, you really saw something really nice and saw similarities to cities in South America and Europe. It's also sad because the old architecture was also very Filipino and arguably mainly was because the colonial architecture still derived/modeled itself from pre-colonial building techniques and influence. So the buildings that were once prevalent were very Filipino even more than the modern buildings today.
It looks like it will be hard to just totally remodel a city for sure and the city and country has more important issues to focus on, but would hope they can restore and rebuild some areas of the city in the future.

The old city has potential to be invested for some rebuilding projects and gentrification and a lot of old buildings are still scattered in the city.

[Palabok]

A lot of REHABILITATION PROJECTS are undergoing at this moment. Beautiful parks, underground passages now seemed to be a mini art museums, street lightning, slum area turned into a beach, smelly canals now are cleaned and green. A lot more will come because of the young former actor but Harvard Educated Isko Moreno Domagoso or populary known as Yorme.

[gellisderais]

isko moreno is what manila waiting for a long time

[peterpaulparado]

Good job Mayor Isko Moreno and President Rodrigo Duterte❤🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭❤🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[jonrolfbollozos]

Dahil kasi yan sa kapabayaan ng mga nagadaang administrasyon magaling magsalita pero Hindi marunong mag preserve ng kultura natin, magaling sa English pero bagsak ekonomiya

[michaelvalmo]

Is it an old record? People don't have mask.

[arianmoscoso]

Manila is much more better now. This video is recorded maybe a year ago or before this pandemic.

[triggerman]

Hope they can Bring back the Tram in Manila

[thevision]

I heard capitol theater was demolished to make onother skyscraper :(

[subsonic]

"Our economic activity was based here."

"Was?" IIRC, Manila accounts for 20 or 30% of the country's economic activity. It is also home to 10% of the country's population. The widely
recognized bias for Manila causes many people from other parts of the country to go there, not Cebu, Batangas, Davao, etc, to look for
opportunities.

Now it's overpopulated, the streets have too many vehicles, there's too much pollution, rent is high, and the government has a pie-in-the-sky
plan to make leaving Manila for the provinces economically viable.

Credit to Ms Alindogan for not bringing up the old trope of indiscriminate American bombing in the Battle of Manila. But it would have been good to hear her bring up the intentional razing of the city (including heritage sites) by entrenched Japanese troops who knew their time was up.

[riyalsantazo]

Dapat wag gibain dapat i preserve na lang po

[jcm]

been to manila once, all i saw was poverty, filth noise. You can't find a single park that is clean and doesn't smell. A lot of work needs to be done to change Manila. Yes the city can do, but majority of the change needs to start with the people living within the city.

[rullyansgoodvibes]

Before soain manila is Sultanate peace country Amanillah.

[shaoliten]

So beautiful European Latin architecture built by the Spaniards, the Spanish Empire, once the most powerful of the world. Phillipinos should be proud of it as Spanish created the Phillipines and made it, the Pearl of the Orient

[harrymanwel]

and what about aljazeera's efforts to spread romours ??

[wakakabravo]

Philippines need a dictator like Lee kuan yew to really developed.

[MerryChristmasEra]

im hoping that they will revive and use the Burnham plan to beautify the ugly manila we know today

[perfect]

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