ABSTRACT
In 2010, the Philippine Statistics Authority estimated that 45.3% of the Philippines was urban, dropping 3.3 percentage points from 2000 (Philippine Statistics Authority 2010). Given the population growth of various cities and the amount of infrastructure developments in recent years, this finding seems to be a statistical artifact. Going beyond urban-rural dichotomies (Brenner 2013; Brenner and Schmid 2014), there is a need to consider multiple urban forms that coalesce multiple sets of relations and examine their formations. In an era of restless urban transformations, it is worth revisiting mega-regions as a “reloaded” urban concept.
