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Metro Davao: Emerging Urban Hub

Metro Davao is the metropolitan area of Davao City and surrounding cities and municipalities in Mindanao, Philippines. It includes Davao City as well as Digos, Tagum, Panabo, and Samal. The metropolitan area also includes the municipalities of Carmen and Santa Cruz. Unlike Metro Manila and Metro Cebu, Metro Davao does not have a formal legal framework established by Congress or presidential decree that defines its composition and governance.

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Metro Davao: Emerging Urban Hub

Metro Davao is the metropolitan area of Davao City and surrounding cities and municipalities in Mindanao, Philippines. It includes Davao City as well as Digos, Tagum, Panabo, and Samal. The metropolitan area also includes the municipalities of Carmen and Santa Cruz. Unlike Metro Manila and Metro Cebu, Metro Davao does not have a formal legal framework established by Congress or presidential decree that defines its composition and governance.

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Metro Davao, officially

called Metropolitan Davao


(Cebuano: Kaulohang
Dabaw), is a metropolitan
area in the Mindanao island
group, Philippines. It
includes the cities of Davao
City, Digos in Davao del Sur
province; Tagum, Panabo
and Samal in Davao del
Norte province. The
metropolitan area also
encompasses the two
municipalities of Carmen in
Davao del Norte and Santa
Cruz in Davao del Sur. Maco
in Compostela Valley is also
being considered to be
included in the metropolitan
area. Metro Davao is one of
three metropolitan areas in
the Philippines.[2]

Compariso Edit
n to other
Philippines
'
metropolit
an regions
The agglomeration of Metro
Davao has no formal legal
framework early on its initial
stage of development
process either by an act of
Congress, by an executive
declaration of the President
or by a formal agreement
among component cities
and municipalities of the
metropolitan area.
In the case of Metro Manila,
the component cities and
municipalities were grouped
into a province through a
[decree issued by then-
President Ferdinand Marcos,
and designated the then
First Lady Imelda Marcos as
governess. From then on,
Greater Manila, as it was
known earlier, became Metro
Manila.
To formalize its juridical
identity, Congress passed
into law Republic Act No.
7924, instituting the
Metropolitan Manila
Development Authority.
Under the current law, the
head of the agency shall be
appointed by the President
and should not be on a
concurrent elected position
as mayor.
Metro Cebu is a concept
created in the 70's and
formally adopted by the
Regional Development
Council of Central Visayas
as a platform for integrating
parallel development in the
metropolitan area.

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