Manila: Starved For Green Space

A huge metropolis with no place to chill out

It is easy to illustrate rich-poor gaps in Manila with photos of fetid slums by the malodorous Pasig or Marikina rivers with a backdrop of Makati or Ortigas. But a bigger and better picture is shown by a simple Google map. Look for green space in the metropolis of 14 million people.

Space to breathe in crowded cities has been a need long before the Engli…