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Title Lessons of Informality : Architecture and Urban Planning for Emerging Territories. Concepts from Ethiopia / Felix Heisel, Bisrat Kifle
Published Basel : Birkhäuser, [2016]
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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: From documentaries to architectural strategies -- Introduction: Informality in emerging territories -- Space creation and a sense of responsibility -- Housing in an informally grown city -- Landownership and the leasehold system -- A "new" Addis Ababa -- The ruralization of urban centres in Ethiopia -- Social, cultural and traditional context -- Social dynamics and development -- Persisting meaning and evolving spaces -- Bottom-up insurance systems -- Self-employment as economic empowerment -- The economic importance of recycling -- Microeconomies, a formalized strategy -- Addis Ababa, a rental city -- City preservation through tourism -- Paradigm shifts in urban strategies -- From density to intensity -- Materializing informality -- Building laws for innovation -- Decentralized infrastructural systems -- Spatial dialogic -- _Spaces / The documentary series -- Editors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Ilustration credits -- Comments (0)
Summary Äthiopien gilt als "Tiger-Staat Afrikas" (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6./7.12.2014). Die Entwicklung von Addis Abeba mit ihren Chancen und Problemen ist typisch für die von sogenannten "emerging territories" und wird in dieser Publikation beispielhaft analysiert. Ziel ist, vorhandene Kompetenzen und Resourcen zu nutzen, um Fehler einer aufgepfropften Architektur und Stadtplanung nach westlichem Muster zu vermeiden
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Jul. 04., 2016)
Subject Architecture and society -- Ethiopia
Architecture, Domestic -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
City planning -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
City planning -- Ethiopia
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Architecture and society
Architecture, Domestic
City planning
Ethiopia
Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Heisel, Felix
Kifle, Bisrat
ISBN 9783035606706
3035606706
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9783035606690
9783035606720
3035606722