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Author: Valentina Fiore Linares Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN: 9783659406195 Category : Languages : en Pages : 92
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Ethiopia is the second most populated country in the Sub-Saharan Africa, with 85 million of inhabitants. At the same time is one of the least urbanized countries, with only the 17% of the population living in urban areas. In the last decade, however, the capital Addis Ababa has suffered a wave of urbanization without equal but the inadequacy of planning tools is getting in the way of a proper development, leading to the exasperation of social conflicts and to the exacerbation of the slums situation. This book is focused on the relationship between formal planning and informal settlements in the city of Addis Ababa, analyzing the current situation of the urban fabric, its origins and the upgrading projects so far implemented. The aim is to outline a sustainable strategy for the design of new urban scenarios, starting from the upgrading of informal settlements through the protection of the traditional ways of living and social networks of interaction.
Author: Valentina Fiore Linares Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN: 9783659406195 Category : Languages : en Pages : 92
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Ethiopia is the second most populated country in the Sub-Saharan Africa, with 85 million of inhabitants. At the same time is one of the least urbanized countries, with only the 17% of the population living in urban areas. In the last decade, however, the capital Addis Ababa has suffered a wave of urbanization without equal but the inadequacy of planning tools is getting in the way of a proper development, leading to the exasperation of social conflicts and to the exacerbation of the slums situation. This book is focused on the relationship between formal planning and informal settlements in the city of Addis Ababa, analyzing the current situation of the urban fabric, its origins and the upgrading projects so far implemented. The aim is to outline a sustainable strategy for the design of new urban scenarios, starting from the upgrading of informal settlements through the protection of the traditional ways of living and social networks of interaction.
Author: Publisher: Un-Habitat ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 108
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"Excluded from the city's opportunities, physically, politically and economically marginalized, slum dwellers are particularly vulnerable to crime and violence. They face an acute risk of becoming victims or offenders and live in a state of constant insecurity. Only a few cities have incorporated a coherent component to prevent crime and mitigate violence in their urban development agendas. Impact on urban safety has occurred somewhat unexpectedly. That is the main lesson to be drawn from the pages of this book: urban policy integration."--pub. desc.
Author: Elias Yitbarek Alemayehu Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527522725 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 220
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Nowhere in Africa is urban development occurring as rapidly as in Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa, at the present moment. During the last decade and a half, massive construction projects in housing, commercial buildings and infrastructure have transformed the landscape of the city, creating a social experiment that has never been replicated on such a massive scale in Africa. This volume, written by Ethiopian and Finnish experts in urban planning, architecture, geography, and ethnology, documents for the first time Addis Ababa’s process of radical transformation. It asks how the city’s poorest residents are affected by the current urban renewal, and identifies the most important challenges facing the city’s residents as a result. Its conclusions focus on three issues: the livelihoods of low-income residents, their participation in the development of the city, and their social networks of support. This volume also traces out the organic forms of the city’s development. Unlike cities in many other African countries, Addis Ababa emerged with only the thinnest traces of a brief colonial legacy: only five years under Italian occupation in the mid-20th century. The city’s development has eluded many planners and has produced unique indigenous forms of urban living. The book records the current spatial relationships and older architectural forms in the old inner city currently slated for demolition. Numerous maps and illustrations are included to help readers visualize the topics discussed in the volume. The volume will be of interest to anyone interested in Addis Ababa’s history and character, as well as policymakers, urban planners, architects, human geographers, ethnographers and researchers of urban poverty and urban informality.
Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136554750 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 346
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The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. From this assessment, the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion people live in slums, the majority in the developing world where over 40 per cent of the urban population are slum dwellers. The number is growing and will continue to increase unless there is serious and concerted action by municipal authorities, governments, civil society and the international community. This report points the way forward and identifies the most promising approaches to achieving the United Nations Millennium Declaration targets for improving the lives of slum dwellers by scaling up participatory slum upgrading and poverty reduction programmes. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. Written in clear language and supported by informative graphics, case studies and extensive statistical data, it will be an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world.
Author: Marc Angélil Publisher: Birkhäuser ISBN: 9783034600903 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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This manual analyzes contemporary urban phenomena in economic growth regions using the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa as an example, and presents a catalogue of sustainable strategies for city planning practice in the Second and Third Worlds.
Author: El-hadj M. Bah Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137597925 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 285
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This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost housing alternatives. Through detailed analysis, the authors investigate the political economy surrounding the continent’s housing market and the constraints that behind-the-scenes policy makers need to address in their attempts to provide affordable housing for the majority in need. With Africa’s urban population growing rapidly, this study highlights how broad demographic shifts and rapid urbanization are placing enormous pressure on the limited infrastructure in many cities and stretching the economic and social fabric of municipalities to their breaking point. But beyond providing a snapshot of the present conditions of the African housing market, the book offers recommendations and actionable measures for policy makers and other stakeholders on how best to provide affordable housing and alleviate Africa’s housing deficit. This work will be of particular interest to practitioners, non-governmental organizations, private sector actors, students and researchers of economic policy, international development, and urban development.
Author: Felix Heisel Publisher: Birkhäuser ISBN: 3035606706 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 224
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Informal settlements made up of corrugated iron shacks and other materials are a ubiquitous feature in the megacities of Africa, Asia and Latin America. In response to the enormous influx of migrants from the countryside, the informal city experienced a phenomenal growth. While rightly criticized for their lack of hygiene and for their low-level living conditions, these shelters nevertheless provide planning strategies and possibly even a roadmap to a resilient city in an emerging territory. The unregistered economic activities associated with them proliferate in a similar way and basic urban services are increasingly provided informally. Examples of these economic phenomena are microloans, bottom-up insurance or professions such as the "Kuré-Yalew" (refuse collector), who acts as an "urban miner" and thus contributes a valuable service to the community by recycling materials.
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