The governance of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit

Kassahun, Meseret Molla

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“…Although subsidised, unlike the RDP housing units in South Africa these condominiums are not distributed for free. In Yeka Abado they are internally differentiated through two distinct housing typologies: the majority are ‘20/80’ condos (where a 20% deposit is needed, with the remaining 80% taken as a bank loan), while the remainder are ‘10/90’ condos (only 10% deposit needed), which are much smaller units targeting low‐income and displaced households (see UN‐HABITAT, 2011; Ejigu, 2012; Planel and Bridonneau, 2017; Kassahun, 2021). There are also informal housing areas and displaced farmers’ settlements, as well as substantial upmarket gated communities—including one large estate, CCD Homes, in the neighbouring Legetafo area to the east of the city border.…”

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Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries

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Goodfellow²,

Todes³

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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Recent years have seen a rising interest in peri-urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city-regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms and the lived experiences of urban change in these spaces. Based on a comparative research project in South Africa and Ethiopia, this article draws out the epistemologies of researching African urban peripheries and presents a new conceptual framework. It offers a language for interpreting processes of peripheral development and change, highlighting five distinct but overlapping logics which we term speculative, vanguard, auto-constructed, transitioning and inherited. Rather than describing bounded peripheral spaces, we argue that these logics can co-exist, hybridize and bleed into each other in different ways in specific places and at different temporal junctures. Centring our methodological practices of comparative analysis, and privileging the voices of those living in urban peripheries, the article employs critical readings of urban scholarship before exploring how these five logics illuminate the complex processes of urban peripheral evolution and transformation. Formulating these logics helps to fill a lacuna in urban conceptualization with potential relevance beyond African contexts.

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confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries

Meth¹,

Goodfellow²,

Todes³

et al. 2021

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Does location matter? The spatial equity implications of the Integrated Housing Development Program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Teklemariam

2022

Urban, Planning and Transport Research

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Politics and the Urban Frontier

Goodfellow

2022

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Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes, urban formations remain diverse in their socio-economic and spatial characteristics, with varying potential to foster economic development and social justice. This book argues that these differences are primarily rooted in politics, and if we continue to view cities as economic and technological projects to be managed rather than terrains of political bargaining and contestation, the quest for better urban futures is doomed to fail. Dominant critical approaches to urban development tend to explain difference with reference to the variegated impacts of neoliberal regulatory institutions. This, however, neglects the multiple ways in which the wider politics of capital accumulation and distribution drive divergent forms of transformation in different urban places. In order to unpack the politics that shapes differential urban development, this book focuses on East Africa as the global urban frontier: the least urbanized but fastest urbanizing region in the world. Drawing on a decade of research spanning three case-study countries (Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda), Politics and the Urban Frontier provides the first sustained, book-length comparative analysis of urban development trajectories in Eastern Africa and the political dynamics underpinning them. Through a focus on infrastructure investment, urban propertyscapes, street-level trading economies, and urban political protest, it offers a multi-scalar, historically grounded, and interdisciplinary analysis of the urban transformations unfolding in the world’s most dynamic crucible of urban change.

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The governance of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit

Abstract: Chapter 11 in the book Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities.

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries

Conceptualizing African Urban Peripheries

Does location matter? The spatial equity implications of the Integrated Housing Development Program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Politics and the Urban Frontier

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