For Marlene Asilo, it’s a family heirloom of sorts – a gray, aluminum food cart, one of the many “jolly jeeps” that line the busy streets of the business and financial hub that is Makati City.

In the Philippines, one man envisions green urbanism not just for the country but for the world as well. He is the renowned green architect and urban planner, Felino “Jun” Palafox Jr.

For a variety of reasons, the homeless often wind up living amid transportation infrastructure: rest areas, roadside rights-of-way, the underside of highway bridges, train stations or even moving train cars or buses.

On a daily average, there are 40 to 50 bicycle borrowers going both directions, sharing up to 20 bicycles (ideally divided into 10 bikes per outpost) between 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

A P3.7-billion plan to rehabilitate Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) for the next two years got the nod of Metro Manila mayors, but not without concerns on its effects on traffic along the 23-km road.

Fed up with drivers who won’t stop to let you pass on the so-called “zebra crossings” on the street?