Making a Living: Integrating informal income generation schemes into formal urban housing redevelopment as foundation for future economic growth and urban densification

Ethiopia is forecast to be the fastest growing economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Partly due to this economic growth, the urban population is expected to increase significantly in the coming decades. In the group of urban migrants, more than half comes from rural areas, indicating a large sum of poorly educated, low skilled workers as major part of...

Productive Addis: Increasing accessibility to local income generation by designing a productive open space system

This master thesis discusses to what extend a productive open space system can increase the accessibility to local income generation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The rapid urbanising capitol of a mainly rural country cannot keep up with providing employment, housing and transportation for its current and future residents. The result is high travel...