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Metropolitan Life and Uncivil Death

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Extract

Metro manila in 2006 is a labyrinthine, megalopolitan fortress of foreclosure. Almost all the main arteries of the metropolis have become virtually enclosed corridors of free-flowing vehicular traffic, without regulated crossings where pedestrians and cross-street flow might momentarily interrupt the stream of hundreds of thousands of cars, buses, and trucks careening down these roads every day. With the help of numerous “flyovers,” or overpasses, and underpasses built by the metropolitan government over the last decade and a half, these ten-lane roads have become highways that coast and tunnel through the thick of the city, connecting the scattered, archipelagic commercial centers and gated communities where the upper-class and upwardly mobile sectors work, live, shop, and socialize.

Type
Correspondents at large MANILA
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2007

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Works Cited

Lacaba, Jose. “Ang mga kagila-gilalas na pakikipagsapalaran ni Juan de la Cruz” [The Amazing Adventures of Juan de la Cruz]. Ang mga kagila-gilalas na pakikipagsapalaran: Mga tulang nahalungat sa bukbuking baul [The Amazing Adventures: Poems Rummaged from a Worm-Infested Chest]. Quezon City: Office of Research and Pubs., Ateneo de Manila U, 1979. 107–09.Google Scholar
Neferti, Tadiar. Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 2004.Google Scholar