P607-B metropolisLocated at Clark Special Freeport Zone in Capas and Bamban, NCC is a P607-billion metropolis touted as the country’s first “climate-change resilient” city. “The vision [for NCC] was to be the first green, smart and truly resilient city, [and] the natural quality of the location gives it a strategically green and resilient character,” Dizon said. Unlike Manila’s haphazard land use and development, NCC will develop only 40 percent of its land; the rest is for open space. These changes are expected to compound the natural vulnerability of the NCC development, said assistant professor Ony Martinez, also Ortega’s coresearcher. You’re trying to develop a green city but you’re removing the green.”What’s clearest from the NCC development is that it remains business-centric, with little to no input from the people who cultivated the land, he said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 07, 2019 23:26 UTC