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• Title:Lessons of informality : architecture and urban planning for emerging territories - concepts from Ethiopia / Felix Heisel, Bisrat Kifle (eds.).
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Heisel, Felix, editor.
  Kifle, Bisrat, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2016]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA9276.7.A33 L47 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:text + dvd
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Ethiopia.
  City planning--Ethiopia--Addis Ababa.
  Architecture, Domestic--Ethiopia--Addis Ababa.
  Architecture and society--Ethiopia.
  Sustainable urban development--Ethiopia.
  
• Description:222 pages ; 25 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)
  
• Summary: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.
  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.0The 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9783035606690 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  3035606692 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Preface: From documentaries to architectural strategies
  Introduction: Informality in emerging territories / Felix Heisel
  Space creation and a sense of responsibility
  Housing in an informally grown city / Fasil Giorghis
  Landownership and the leasehold system / Wubshet Berhanu
  A "new" Addis Ababa / Marjan Kloosterboer
  The ruralization of urban centres in Ethiopia / Heyaw Terefe, Felix Heisel
  Social, cultural and traditional context
  Social dynamics and development / Alula Pankhurst
  Persisting meaning and evolving spaces / Genet Alem
  Bottom-up insurance systems / Bisrat Kifle
  Self-employment as economic empowerment
  The economic importance of recycling / Felix Heisel, Bisrat Kifle
  Microeconomies, a formalized strategy / Lia Gabre Mariam W.
  Addis Ababa, a rental city / Perrine Duroyaume
  City preservation through tourism / Tadesse Girmay Gebreegziabher
  Paradigm shifts in urban strategies
  From density to intensity / Felix Heisel
  Materializing informality / Dirk E. Hebel
  Building laws for innovation / Elias Yitbarek, Felix Heisel
  Decentralized infrastructural systems / Tesfaye Hailu Bekele
  Spatial dialogic / Sascha Delz
  _Spaces : the documentary series / Felix Heisel, Bisrat Kifle.