Category: Philippines

Bring the city to the people

18 November, 2009 (11:53) | Cities, Global news, Infrastructure, Philippines, Slums, Speculation | No comments

By: David A. Smith
 
“Either you bring the water to LA or you bring LA to the water.”
– Noah Cross, Chinatown

 

“‘Course I’m respectable.  I’m old.”
 
Someday I’ll post in detail about Chinatown, because it (and its spiritual cousin, True Confessions) is a great film about housing development and municipal infrastructure, whose economic power did much to define [...]

Help the Philippines

1 October, 2009 (11:58) | Global news, Infrastructure, Philippines, SDI, Slums | 1 comment

Manila, yesterday
 
Sonia Fadraigo, Federation leader and Board member of AHI’s client Slum Dwellers International wrote this morning:
Federation not OK.  Badly hit.  Biggest disaster ever.  Don’t know where to start.  Still gathering info as to how many died.  Thousands of Fed members lost their houses – washed out by the floods.  We need help.  Thank you [...]