TY - JOUR
T1 - Mega-regions in the Philippines
T2 - Accounting for special economic zones and global-local dynamics
AU - Ortega, Arnisson Andre
AU - Acielo, Johanna Marie Astrid E.
AU - Hermida, Maria Celeste H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Office of the Vice President of Academic Affairs of the University of the Philippines through the Capsule Project, Spaces in Transition? Mapping Manila’s Peri-Urban Fringe (OVPAA-BPhD-2012-02).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - Mega-regions have emerged as 'new engines' of global economic growth, characterized by incessant movement of global and local capital. Considering this, this study offers a spatiodemographic approach that defines mega-regions beyond static state-delimited urban boundaries, and considers the global-local dynamics that underlie its formations. Focusing on the Philippines, one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia, we discuss emergent mega-regions and analyze their recent and future trajectories using municipal-level demographic variables (population density, percentage change across Censal years 1990, 2000, 2010) along with special economic zones. Results show the rise of multiple mega-regions in varying degrees of spatial expansion and development from the mega-conurbation of Metro Manila and surrounding regions to emergent provincial mega-regions. Also, the patterns of special economic zones illustrate the spatial expressions of globalization in restructuring mega-regional landscapes in the Philippines. The paper hopes to encourage urban analyses that seek ways of theorizing and accounting for mobilities and global-local networks to guide socially just and sustainable planning.
AB - Mega-regions have emerged as 'new engines' of global economic growth, characterized by incessant movement of global and local capital. Considering this, this study offers a spatiodemographic approach that defines mega-regions beyond static state-delimited urban boundaries, and considers the global-local dynamics that underlie its formations. Focusing on the Philippines, one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia, we discuss emergent mega-regions and analyze their recent and future trajectories using municipal-level demographic variables (population density, percentage change across Censal years 1990, 2000, 2010) along with special economic zones. Results show the rise of multiple mega-regions in varying degrees of spatial expansion and development from the mega-conurbation of Metro Manila and surrounding regions to emergent provincial mega-regions. Also, the patterns of special economic zones illustrate the spatial expressions of globalization in restructuring mega-regional landscapes in the Philippines. The paper hopes to encourage urban analyses that seek ways of theorizing and accounting for mobilities and global-local networks to guide socially just and sustainable planning.
KW - Globalization
KW - Mega-regions
KW - Philippines
KW - Special economic zones
KW - Urbanization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cities.2015.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.cities.2015.07.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84936929272
SN - 0264-2751
VL - 48
SP - 130
EP - 139
JO - Cities
JF - Cities
ER -