In the Philippines, calls for creating ‘global’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘resilient’ cities are placing urban poor communities in increasingly precarious positions. These communities have long been the targets of urban development and ‘modernisation’ efforts; more recently the erasure of informal settlements from Philippine cities is being bolstered at the behest of climate change adaptation and disaster risk management (DRM) agendas. In Metro Cebu, flood management has been at the heart of DRM and broader urban development discussions, and is serving as justification for the demolition and displacement of informal settler communities in areas classed as ‘danger zones’. Using Kusno's (2010) interpretation of the ‘exemplary centre’ as a point of departure, this paper interrogates the relationship between DRM, worlding aspirations (Roy and Ong, 2011) and market‐oriented urbanisation in Cebu, and considers the socio‐spatial implications of these intersecting processes for urban poor communities. Through analysing the contradictions inherent in framings of certain bodies and spaces as being ‘of risk’ or ‘at risk’ over others, I argue that the epistemologies of modernity, disaster risk and resilience endorsed and propagated by the state are facilitating processes of displacement and dispossession that serve elite commercial interests under the auspices of disaster resilience and pro‐poor development.

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志向高远和有弹性的未来：菲律宾大都会宿雾的风险框架和当代城市建设

在菲律宾，建立“全球”，“可持续”和“弹性”城市的呼吁使城市贫困社区的处境越来越不稳定。这些社区长期以来一直是城市发展和“现代化”努力的目标。最近，应气候变化适应和灾害风险管理（DRM）议程的要求，加强了从菲律宾城市中删除非正式住区的工作。在宿雾市，洪水管理一直是灾害风险管理和更广泛的城市发展讨论的核心，并为在被归类为“危险区”的地区中的非正式定居者社区的拆迁提供了理由。本文以库斯诺（Kusno，2010）对“示范中心”的解释作为出发点，审视了DRM与世俗抱负之间的关系（Roy和Ong，2011年）和宿雾市以市场为导向的城市化进程，并考虑了这些相交过程对城市贫困社区的社会空间影响。通过分析某些物体和空间的框架固有的矛盾，认为这些物体和空间相对于其他物体“处于危险中”或“处于危险中”，我认为国家认可和传播的现代性，灾害风险和复原力的认识论正在促进流离失所和在抗灾力和穷人发展的支持下为精英商业利益服务的剥夺。