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Urban Planning and Everyday Urbanisation: A Case Study on Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
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Abstract Urbanisation in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, poses challenges to urban living conditions. Despite large scale housing programmes from the side of the government, construction and settling processes have largely remained incremental. The author focuses on the relation between statutory planning and practices... view more
Urbanisation in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, poses challenges to urban living conditions. Despite large scale housing programmes from the side of the government, construction and settling processes have largely remained incremental. The author focuses on the relation between statutory planning and practices of everyday urbanisation. The findings from Bahir Dar suggest that some mundane regimes of building the city are patronised, while others are considered undesired by policy makers. Based on this insight, the author argues that urban development in Bahir Dar needs to be locally grounded, differentiated and inclusive to avoid further tendencies of segregation.... view less
Keywords
Ethiopia; urbanization; urban planning; urban development; segregation; cultural anthropology; urban research; Africa
Free Keywords
Bahir Dar; Case Study; City; Ethnology; Socio-Economic Segregation; Urban Living Conditions; Urban Policy; Urban Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
234 p.
Series
Urban Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839437155
ISBN
978-3-8394-3715-5
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0