Cagayan de Oro Win Award For Sustainable City Planning

Be proud Kagay-anons because Cagayan de Oro City is one of the Cities were proclaimed winners of the first Liveable Cities Design Challenge during a ceremony on Wednesday, October 15, in Pasay City. Which there are 15 City entries featured wide sidewalks, renewable energy, disaster-resilient designs and green architecture.

Cagayan de Oro bested 9 others in the Government Center or Evacuation Center category, in which participating cities must design a disaster-resistant government complex or zone.

The entries of each city were the work of teams composed of the cities’ mayors, planning staff, architects, urban planners, experts from the cities’ universities and architect mentors tapped by the competition organizers.