Annette Koh

Public space, the right to the city, and civic engagement. How can we improve equity and access through participatory urbanism? Ph.D. student in Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Former resident of Seoul & San Francisco.
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Reading about the flooding in the Philippines from the recent typhoon I was reminded of the make-do can-do scrappiness of one of the awesomest Asian cities.

Love goes on

People find a way

But I don’t want to romanticize an essentially crappy situation: intensifying storms in an urbanized floodplain.

Photo from the 2009 floods caused by Tropical Storm Ketsana, which hit Manila on Sept. 26, as a “once-in-a-lifetime typhoon.” A month’s worth of rain deluged the city in the space of 12 hours and flooding submerged 80% of Manila.