Who Built This? China, China, China!

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 5
3. Contents 6
4. Mirror, Mirror, on The Wall 9
5. Urban Laboratory – Addis Ababa 17
6. Mirroring Research 22
7. Stocks and Flows of People
8. The Portrait of an Isolated Nation 30
9. Integrating Urbanity 40
10. Displacement on The Horn of Africa 47
11. Capitals on The Move 48
12. Proxemics 54
13. An Imperial Colonial City in Africa 60
14. Educity 66
15. Stocks and Flows of Space
16. Spatial Effects of Individual Home-Ownership 72
17. Learning from Bole 112
18. Addis 5000 116
19. Mercato 121
20. Informal Cities 127
21. Suburbing Addis 128
22. In-Urbia 134
23. Designing The Negative 138
24. Transformalism 143
25. Stocks and Flows of Material
26. Dubai Fever 144
27. Low-Rise, High-Intensity Urbanism In Addis Ababa 152
28. Sudu 156
29. Infrastructural Tales 158
30. AddisBuilt 160
31. Cement Dreams 169
32. Stocks and Flows of Capital
33. Beans or Butterflies 170
34. Synergic Urbanism 178
35. Poverty in The City 183
36. Unite! 184
37. The LPD Effect 187
38. Addis 2020 192
39. Who Built This? China, China, China! 198
40. Stocks and Flows of Information
41. Genesis of The Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development EIABC 206
42. Mixcity 210
43. Ethnic City: Ethnicity in The City 215
44. Dynamic Plan 216
45. Education in Ethiopia 221
46. Linked Ethiopia 222
47. Stocks and Flows of Energy
48. Empowering a Nation 228
49. Sol-Urbia 236
50. Bottom-Up Solar Energy 243
51. Selected Bibliography 244
52. Actor-Network Acknowledgements 247
53. Contributors 252
54. Illustration Credits 254
55. Backmatter 256