"Sites and Services in Performance: Housing in Addis Ababa Beyond Crisis and Heroism", paper presented at the 17th IPHS Conference

On Monday 18 July I will deliver the paper “Sites and Services in Performance: Housing in Addis Ababa Beyond Crisis and Heroism” at the 17th IPHS Conference, convened by Professor Carola Hein and organized by The International Planning History Society (IPHS).
The 17th IPHS Conference will be held in Delft, The Netherlands, from July 17 to 21, 2016.
The theme of the conference is ‘History – Urbanism – Resilience’.
My paper will be presented in the Session "Housing Production", moderated by Florian Urban.
My paper delivers a critical account on development aid policies based on affordable housing solutions underpinned by the concept of incremental growth. Using documentation gathered in empirical research on housing figures built in Addis Ababa from the 1974 revolution on, I will compare the Nefas Silk sites and services settlement with a housing figure promoted in the 1980s by the Norwegian non-governmental agency Redd Barna (Save the Children) and a housing programme developed in the mid-2000s by the Ethiopian government with technical support provided by the German international cooperation agency, GTZ.