Landownership and the leasehold system

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 11
3. Preface: From documentaries to architectural strategies 12
4. Introduction: Informality in emerging territories 14
5. Space creation and a sense of responsibility
6. Housing in an informally grown city 34
7. Landownership and the leasehold system 53
8. A “new” Addis Ababa 62
9. The ruralization of urban centres in Ethiopia 71
10. Social, cultural and traditional context
11. Social dynamics and development 74
12. Persisting meaning and evolving spaces 93
13. Bottom-up insurance systems 108
14. Self-employment as economic empowerment
15. The economic importance of recycling 114
16. Microeconomies, a formalized strategy 129
17. Addis Ababa, a rental city 134
18. City preservation through tourism 142
19. Paradigm shifts in urban strategies
20. From density to intensity 150
21. Materializing informality 166
22. Building laws for innovation 171
23. Decentralized infrastructural systems 177
24. Spatial dialogic 190
25. _Spaces / The documentary series 201
26. Editors and contributors 215
27. Acknowledgements 220
28. Ilustration credits 222