![]() See, a good city entails more than having trees adorning sidewalks or intersections having pedestrian lanes. All these could have been solved, or at the very least mitigated, with good urban design. In the discourse online, people said it was a display of class divide, an ignorant city, and an inaccessible area, among other things. It should come as no surprise then that not everyone likes the commercial hub. These global cities-worse yet we could call them Neil Smith’s “revanchist cities”-become bubbles that serve as a manifestation of a neoliberal’s wet dream. Years of urbanist studies point out that the explosive growth of global cities such as BGC is instrumental in the large-scale veiling of marginality and poverty in an attempt to embellish the Philippines as if it is not a struggling country. I suppose it is charming: the wide sidewalks with so much space for movement, high-rise buildings and apartments, white-collar workers in business attire, luxury stores and restaurants along every street, indifferent foreigners walking around feeling at home, shiny cars stopping and going when the stoplights tell them to-the very concept of everyone’s urban heaven.īut that’s all there is to that “city”. The city is “a true child of the 21st century,” as it calls itself, where braindead millennials and career-sighted individuals dwell to keep out the uncivilized world just across highways you’d mistake for car parks because of the heavy traffic. Over the recent weeks, I’ve been seeing extensive discussions on central-business-district-slash-fake-utopia Bonifacio Global City (BGC), and for good reason. ![]()
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