Mapping Manila's Mega-Urban Region

Ortega, Arnisson Andre C.

doi:10.1080/17441730.2014.902163

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“…It is presently the eighteenth‐largest agglomeration in the world (United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs, Population Division, ). It is the primate city of a country in which recent urbanization has been driven by rural–urban migration, particularly to its peripheries (Jones, ; Ortega, ; ). Its landscape is defined by polarization of the population according to global‐city enclaves and forgotten, bypassed informality (Shatkin, ; Kleibert and Kippers, ).…”

Section: Recentering Risk Society In a Typhoon‐belt Megacitymentioning

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Evicting Slums, ‘Building Back Better’: Resiliency Revanchism and Disaster Risk Management in Manila

Alvarez¹,

Cardenas²

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article examines how the politics of managing global catastrophic risks plays out in a stereotypically ‘vulnerable’ megacity in the global South. It analyses the disproportionate impact of the 2009 Ondoy floods on Manila's underclasses as a consequence of the failures and partial successes of twentieth‐century developmentalism, in the course of which the Philippine state facilitated a highly uneven distribution of disaster risk. It argues that the selective interpretation and omission of facts underpinned a disaster risk management (DRM) strategy premised on the eviction of slum dwellers. Through the lens of aesthetic governmentality we analyse how elite and expert knowledge produced a narrative of the slum as the source of urban flood risk via the territorial stigmatization of slums as blockages. We also show how the redescription of flood risk based on aesthetics produced uneven landscapes of risk, materializing in the ‘danger’/‘high‐risk’‐zone binary. This article characterizes the politics of the Metro Manila DRM strategy by introducing the concept of resiliency revanchism: a ‘politics of revenge’ predicated on the currency of DRM and ‘resiliency’, animated by historically entrenched prejudicial attitudes toward urban underclasses, and enabled by the selective interpretation, circulation and use of expertise.

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Section: Recentering Risk Society In a Typhoon‐belt Megacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Evicting Slums, ‘Building Back Better’: Resiliency Revanchism and Disaster Risk Management in Manila

Alvarez¹,

Cardenas²

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…In Southeast Asia, several studies have sought to understand mega-urban patterns in selected urban agglomerations by making use of both spatial analysis of satellite images and spatial statistics using Census data (Jones, 2002(Jones, , 2005Macleod & McGee, 1996;Ortega, 2014;Yokohari, Takeuchi, Watanabe, & Yokota, 2000).…”

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“…By the 2000s, Metro Manila was experiencing pockets of urban decline and suburban growth with population movement into the Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog regions, an indication of an expanding mega-urban region beyond the metropolitan regional boundary (Ortega, 2014). Meanwhile, regional cities also grew, prompting local governments and the private sector to establish informal metropolitan configurations (Mercado & Manasan, 1998).…”

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Mega-regions in the Philippines: Accounting for special economic zones and global-local dynamics

Ortega

Acielo

Hermida

2015

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“…Over the years, Manila has undergone alternate phases of crisis and economic growth, but the urbanization of its territory has continued uninterrupted, following no specific spatial order. Rather, urban growth has been marked by highly volatile and chameleon-like configurations [52]. Large areas of the city, especially in the downtown area, are occupied by informal communities that will be affected by the city's undergoing redevelopment.…”

Section: Manila and Baseco: An Intense And Often Uncontrolled Urbanismentioning

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Proximal Cities: Does Walkability Drive Informal Settlements?

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The uncontrolled growth of urban areas worldwide is pushing a substantial part of the urban population to the fringes of society, confining them to the unsecure and unhygienic settlements that we call “informal.” These settlements lack in intelligible layout and essential services and infrastructures, thus representing a challenging issue for policy makers and urban designers in the development of renewal programs and strategies. In order to support the facing of these issues through an on-site upgrade approach, this paper argues that walkability deeply affects the functioning of informal settlements, so as to propose that they can be identified as “proximal cities,” which expresses the idea that the vital space in informal settlements has soft boundaries and follows a fuzzy logic. A quantitative analysis, based on a configurational approach, and a qualitative analysis, focused on the morphologic features of the settlements, have been implemented. A comparison of the results shows that this approach is suitable to provide a deeper knowledge on informal settlement and informal society under the assumption of their strict mutual connection. A primal definition of proximal cities, suitable for describing some properties of autopoietic urban systems, emerges from the evidence-based relationships between their spatial and social features. In this respect, a case study has been proposed and discussed.

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Mapping Manila's Mega-Urban Region

Cited by 16 publications

References 44 publications

Evicting Slums, ‘Building Back Better’: Resiliency Revanchism and Disaster Risk Management in Manila

Evicting Slums, ‘Building Back Better’: Resiliency Revanchism and Disaster Risk Management in Manila

Mega-regions in the Philippines: Accounting for special economic zones and global-local dynamics

Proximal Cities: Does Walkability Drive Informal Settlements?

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