Marco Di Nunzio, Urban Age Rsearch Officer at LSE Cities, delivered “Development through dislocation: scale, aesthetics and the politics of informality in Addis Ababa’s construction boom” at the African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference in Cape Town on 2 February 2018. The special panel looking at Informality, urban space and infrastructure was convened by LSE Cities and chaired by Victoria Okoye. Panellists included Gunvor Jónsson (Urban informality and ‘evictability’: the demolition of the Malian market in Dakar); and Taibat Lawanson (Slum upgrading in Lagos: a retrospective assessment of World Bank projects).
Marco Di Nunzio delivers paper on housing in Addis Ababa at African Centre for Cities conference
5 February 2018