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This section features selected articles regarding architecture and other additional stuff of interest.

RGC&A believes that sharing information through our website by way of articles of interest is a worthy and useful endeavor; particularly for visitors who are interested in a better appreciation of the architectural and planning realms. Non-professionals visiting the site are welcome to becoming more informed-- by just browsing through our choice articles.

Start with this one-- A Special Gift For You

It has been a number of years since the completion of my Masteral Thesis at the Saint Louis University. Many have been asking me about my urban core pedestrianization topic and the ideas that I have espoused thereat. Remaining a strong believer in the potential of pedestrianization as a possible response to the problems that plague the Urban Core of Baguio; I have often wondered if there was a way by which my treatise could be put to further use.

After much soul-searching, I have decided that the answer was to make the contents of my Masteral "magnum opus" available for online download as a gift to my site visitors. The PDF file is my thesis 'manuscript' while the other is the related PowerPoint PPTX presentation file on my June 2014 presentation at the Maryknoll Ecological Sanctuary. Both are being made available below for your download.

As you are given access to these, my only request is that you put them to good use-- either as reading or appreciation material; or as a worthy thesis and PowerPoint protoypical reference-- for those in the academe.

The links are below. To download, right-click on an item link, then choose "Save Target As..." Please note that the files are relatively large and might take a while to download; particularly if you do not have a fast Broadband connection. Kindly just be patient.

rgchan_pedestrianization.pdf (8.8 Mb)

rgchan_maryknoll.pptx (5.6 Mb)

If for any reason you succeed with putting my stuff to good use, I would appreciate that you let me know.

Recently, the clamor for a Sustainable Urban Mobility Program (SUMP) in Baguio has been gaining the support of our local stakeholders. I am happy that my thesis work has been used by Ms. Michelle Bacalla-Garcia as a starting point for her own masteral thesis; and subsequently the basis of the SUMP agenda.

My sincere hope is that the SUMP proposal will be seriously considered and eventually implemented for our City of Pines.

RAFFY G. CHAN, fuap, maehp, cbp

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