CAVITE PROVINCE PLAN: EXISTING GROWTH ZONES Concentric in relation to Metro Manila
CONCEPT
First Growth Triangle: La Llave de Manila Second Growth Triangle: Cavite Nuevo
“The metropolis is no longer a city, it is a region, and can be conceived only as a vast urban landscape.... Can such an urban landscape be conceived as a whole, can it be designed so as to produce a mental image?”
Third Growth Triangle: Metro Tagaytay
- Hans Blumenfeld, “The Scale of Civic Design”
The current pattern of dispersed urbanism in Cavite is reflective of the lack of a cohesive vision plan for the province. The continued development of the province and the consequences of climate change affirm the need for an integrated development strategy which combines quality housing, socioeconomic development, and environmental management. The absence of such a vision increases exposure of housing and residents to social and environmental risks which can be minimized through the design of holistic systems and settlements. While the pattern of dispersed urbanism may continue, it can also happen in a more intentional way. The proposed plan conceives the entire province as an urban-ecological entity, combining rural lands and urbanized areas in synergy so that each can benefit from the other and function as a single ruralurban system. This new vision plan for the
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province operates on the regional scale, aspiring to create a self-sustained province that no longer relies heavily on Manila as a center of employment, education, shopping and culture. It seeks to replace the current development zones organized as three concentric rings radiating from manila outwards with a corridor structure that organizes development along a north-south set of bands intertwined with landscape corridors between the upland mountain of Tagaytay and the coastal plain of Cavite City. Cavite Province has a well-defined silhouette, a legible landscape which can help us read its form. While the silhouette is easily legible from afar, its shape is less obvious on the ground. Despite the fact that these shifts between climatic zones cannot be seen when walking down the street, design can help us to understand the context of our environment by reflecting ecological processes at a much smaller scale. Near
NEW VISION PLAN: URBAN BANDS AND ECO-CORRIDORS Expand existing connections and strengthen connections between upland mountains and coastal plain
Urban Band
Eco-Corridor
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