Decongesting Metro Manila

By Romulo Neri

Jul 31, 2024 12:01 am

First of two parts

OUR Malay ancestors were a riverine people with a rice-growing culture. That's why our traditional settlements were centered on the marshy deltas of major rivers. They cultivated rice on the floodplains and used the rivers and tributary streams as their transport highways. At that time, traveling through thick snake-infested forests with no roads was not an option.

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