Urban design and placemaking in Naga

NOTWITHSTANDING Presentation Zen's reservations over Slideshare and similar shared slideshows on the web, I am posting the Powerpoint material used by the UBC Investment Promotion group, which Aldy Manrique liked best.

I am one with Aldy in regard to the Naga River; the San Antonio, Texas experience shared by the group, as well as the Business Improvement Area (BIA) approach used by Vancouver, are models we can use in revisiting local efforts to revitalize our very own major waterway.

Joey Co brought up the cultural aspect, a weakness that he said constrains Naga residents from replicating the San Antonio initiative, but I fully agree with Nora here; the river where the annual fluvial procession (now becoming biannual, given the summer Peñafrancia event that is being slowly developed, an effort led by the local archdiocese itself) takes place is a huge positive that can trump any potential opposition.

As usual, it can be downloaded as an Adobe PDF file (or so says Slideshare) owing to filesize limits imposed on uploads. The slides follow after the jump.