Design Aspirations for a Sustainable Post-Pandemic Metro Manila

Rethinking How Our Cities Are Designed to Slow Future Pandemics

Design aspirations for a sustainable post-pandemic Metro Manila Ar. / EnP. RODELON RAMOS Local Pathways Fellow UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network © KEVIN LUCBERT – BLUE LINES

The Old Normal

The Flaws of our Cities

đ&#x;“° Repurposing Facebook Stories to tell the tale of Metro Manila’s abysmal Urban Planning

© KJ Rosales, The Philippine STAR

PROXEMICS

ð&#x;“° Pandemic Proxemics: Is Six Feet Enough?

Jean-Louis Grall/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

cohousing

Incremental housing

“Improved housing conditions can save lives, prevent disease, increase quality of life, reduce poverty, and help mitigate climate change.”

- World Health Organization topcommunitygrants.com

inhabitat.com

Mixed-income housing

Slum upgrading

“ Housing has become the front line defense against the coronavirus. Home has rarely been more of a life or death situation.”

- Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur economist.com

economist.com

© Lili Smith – BASECO Rehabilitation

Human-centered design

đ&#x;“° LOOK: Emerging Architects Studio proposes a series of post-COVID-19 residential designs

ŠEMERGING ARCHITECTS STUDIO

High-performance buildings

Š Richard L Lord

đ&#x;“° Standing tall: How green buildings are adapting to the post-Covid era

arch2o.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Arch2o-Zero-Energy-Home-Plans-greenlivingideas-06.jpg

Learning environments

www.sasaki.com/voices/how-to-transform-your-learning-environments-for-covid-19/

Hyper-local micro markets

đ&#x;“° Shift Architecture Urbanism Creates Hyperlocal Micro Markets that Operate During COVID-19 Shutdowns

CHRONO-URBANISM “A new chrono-urbanism must be at the heart of cities.

We must imagine, and build another pace of life, other ways of occupying urban space to transform its use, to access to six essential urban social functions�

-Carlos Moreno

moreno-web.net/the-15-minutes-city-for-a-new-chrono-urbanism-pr-carlos-moreno/

transportgeography.org

THE 20-MINUTE NEIGHBORHOOD

© Plan Melbourne

THE 15-MINUTE CITY

ð&#x;“° How the ‘15-Minute City’ Could Help Post-Pandemic Recovery

NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT

TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT

ð&#x;“° How Transit-Oriented Development Benefits Local Economies The Modern Day Neighborhood Unit Diagram. Graphic by Farr Associates.

SUPERBLOCKS

đ&#x;“° Superblocks: the health benefits of car-lite living in Barcelona

Š Ajuntament de Barcelona

Complete streets

đ&#x;“° Complete streets promoting health equity in communities: Supporting transportation for all users

worldstreets.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/itdp-pedestians-first-cover.png

đ&#x;“° 9 urban planners and architects illustrate their ideal EDSA

https://blog.sakay.ph/bus-stops-redesign-metro-manila/

An ideal EDSA by Louwie A. Gan and associates

https://youtu.be/osopMySOa8g

© hoohoohoblin

science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/ hoverbike-future-flight.htm

HUMAN – POWERED TRANSPORT + ACTIVE MOBILITY

www.animo.com/handbike-per-disabilita-motorie/

ORGANIZED STREET VENDING

Š divifuture Philstar.com

medium.com/sidewalk-talk/street-design-principles-fe35106e0f92

đ&#x;“° Making space for street vendors: Towards equitable urban development

globadesigningcities.org

AGRIHOODS

đ&#x;“° Farm to your table? How ‘agrihoods’ can create access to fresh food đ&#x;“° Agrihoods: the urban communities built around their own farms

ALLOTMENT GARDENS / VICTORY GARDENS

learningwithexperts.com/gardening/blog/allotmentscommunity-gardens

dw.com/en/why-the-germans-love-their-allotmentgardens/av-49615321

đ&#x;“° Food Supply Anxiety Brings Back Victory Gardens đ&#x;“° Dig for vitality: UK urban allotments as a health-promoting response to COVID-19

FOOD FOREST

Š Francesca Riolo

đ&#x;“° How Food Forests Fight Hunger in Cities đ&#x;“° Food Forests 101: An Answer to Food Deserts, Poverty, and Environmental Destruction

WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS

đ&#x;“° See How Mesh Networks Make Smart Cities Even Smarter đ&#x;“° How a shareable network could be more beneficial than 5G for future smart cities

Š YURIY PAGAPOV

THE SAFE CITY

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THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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I’d like to hear from you!

Ar. / EnP. RODELON RAMOS Local Pathways Fellow

UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network rodelon.ramos@localpathways.org