Ive been watching discovery's " waterfront cities of the world". Downloaded it and have been watching it for sometime now. Its about urban planning and how these countries/ cities have planned their cities to meet modernity. Its so amazing! Even astounding to see cities who planned, fixed their problems to cope with the changing lifestyle of their people, to cope with global warming - the sudden rise of sea water, the change in climate and weather disturbances. Really beautiful! Really wished every filipino watch it, wish every filipino "politiko" watch it. If you passion for public service, if you really feel you want to change the landscape of Philippine society , better look, study how other cities and countries have done it, dont just go travel and relax in thse cities. Study, learn from them. Learn their very motive why hey wanted to change their place, why hey had to do all these sacrifices for their nation.
Urban planning is non existent in Philippine geography and Phiilippine politics. We have city admnistrator, we have city engineer in every local government unit. But no city planning. We probably have a city planning department where they approve every proposed roadwork projects, allocate money. But they dont really do the research, the study on how our cities can really cope with the changing times, how we canimprove he landscape of our city with long term goals. And thats where all the problem begins. When we neglect planning, focus on "projects" instead of strategically planning every project toward one common goal (long term), we will not go through the flood we go through every year. We will notgo through the prolem of  waste disposal every year. It all involves planning, researching ,studying and thinking. We dont just fix all the symptoms. We treat the disease. If every filipino will stop tolerating such a lack of planning in our communities, we will stop the misuse of our government funds and start allocating funds for big projects that will really save our cities from future destruction.