In the previous seminar, I was particularly intrigued by Dr. Escudero's description of the city; the city of Bondoy, Tisoy, Gorio and Hugo; the city with its sharp constasts Florentino wrote about in Tondo For Two. I am not going to attempt this kind of description of the city. Today, we are more concerned with the typical facilities of the city so that we will take a typical view. The best way to get a superficial view of the typical settlements in the city is to take a helicopter ride over it, just as some of you have done, I'm sure. If I were recommending the route to take, I would say that the best is to start from Intramurous and do a series of elliptical runs around the city in a clockwise direction with the elliptical paths moving eastward from the seacoast to the foothills of the Sierra Madre. If you make these elliptical runs you'll find some rather interesting patterns of settlements. In each case, you'll see settlements that make up the industrial and commercial areas, recreational facilities, and residential areas. The residential areas generally will vary all the way from high-density slum concentrations, particularly around the areas of demands for unskilled labor on the waterfront, interspersed with enclaves of middle- and high-income residential districts. You will find, as you do these elliptical runs, the clear pattern and the mixture of land development. This kind of mixture repeats itself in belts around the city all the way out to Caloocan City, Quezon City, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Makati and Pasay City and then again in the next belt over Navotas, Malabon, Marikina, Taytay, Paranaque, and Las Pinas. These very interesting belts of settlements that make up the whole maze hardly give you the impression of a rational design. It is really a psychedelic experience, an experience of pure chaotic spontaneity. It is a city planner's nightmare, but of course, the happy hunting ground for the social scientists, the sociologists, the social pyschologist, and the anthropologist.