Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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With nearly 2 million people crammed into just 42 square kilometers, Manila is bursting at the seams. How did it become so overcrowded, and what’s next for this chaotic megacity?

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00:00 Introduction
01:38 The Many Manilas
02:57 The Many Manileños
05:42 “City Beautiful” with Daniel Burnham
09:09 No Rest for the Dead
12:34 The Weight of the “Pearl of the Orient”
15:21 ‘Build! Build! Build!’
17:34 The “Dead City” of the Future?