Our previous seminar speakers have pointed out various reasons why there is an urgent need to order Metro Manila's burgeoning growth. Mr. Roxas succinctly pointed out that the metropolitan growth of Manila can only be undertaken through a joint enterprise between government at all levels and the private sector. For this session therefore, we shall take as our baseline the premise that we have to find the right combination of strategic measures to know exactly what we want to happen in Metro Manila. In this way, we can explore various avenues to arrive at an outline program that can lead to worthwhile metropolitan growth.
By metropolitan growth we mean the orderly and rational development of Metro Manila. This will lead us to identify spatial growth scales starting with the vital core which is Manila and then extending its influence to the present.