Cebu City in the Global area. Its governance and urban development policy

Abstract

In this paper I will focus on the governance of Cebu City as a global city. The paper is part of ongoing research (see van Naerssen 2001) which started in 1999 when I visited Cebu City for the first time. In 2000 and 2001 I was visiting guest researcher at the University of San Carlos (USC) for 3 and 4 weeks respectively. In the beginning of 2002 I spent two weeks in Cebu, mainly to supervise two Dutch students who carried out research in urban poor areas. In July 2004 I updated this paper and presented it in a symposium at the USC. This, I feel, is altogether far too short a time to obtain insight in such a complicated matter as urban gov? ernance. Therefore, the aim of this paper is not to suggest solutions but to raise some questions and ideas. I am particularly interested in the way municipal governance is related to: (a) issues regarding the urban poor, and (b) the status of Cebu City as a global city. The paper is based on talks and interviews with representatives of the civil society in Cebu City, in particular the local NGO's; and on writ? ten sources including newspapers, personal observations, and student re? searches. In the year 2000, key persons of the local government and major NGO's were interviewed on governance issues. I was a regular visitor to some of these NGO's.2 Aside, from these, a number of students of the Human Geography Department of Nijmegen University carried out re? search in Cebu City on subjects such as tourism (Blijleven and van

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