Estero de Paco clearance project, as seen from the roof of an affluent homeowner who benefited from the project.

Manila’s “Danger Areas”

Nancy Kwak

In central Manila, the National Housing Authority and private foundations have been clearing urban waterways and relocating informal dwellers. By some accounts, the rivers and estuaries have become greener, and the city safer from floods and natural disasters. But as “danger areas” rise into green prosperity, the prospects for the displaced are less clear.

Clearing urban waterways creates new challenges for the city’s most vulnerable inhabitants.

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Barbara Penner is a columnist for Places. She is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

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