Overview
- Presents a comprehensive assessment of local governance of the city of Gondar
- Gives a fresh look on how political change impacts the city
- Presents an innovative approach on how to minimize the negative impacts of crises
Part of the book series: Local and Urban Governance (LUG)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Elements of Planning, Governance, Urban Resilience, and Sustainability
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Gondar Through the Layers of History
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Economic Policies and Programs
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Local governance
- ‘Regime change’ in a system
- Comprehensive plan as an urban management tool
- Cities facing crises
- Historic preservation
- Land grant to sustain religious institutions
- urban resilience
- urban sustainability
- crisis recovery
- economic transformation
- Urban Geography and Urbanism
- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
About this book
This book analyzes ancient cities that are facing crisis, and their coping mechanism to maintain resiliency and sustainability to remain economically viable and historically relevant. The book takes a fresh look at the underlying causes of the crises and recommends good governance and strategic planning options that the city could use to develop a robust economy using surveys and other materials, including geez (old Ethiopian language) church sources. This book illustrates the usage of the concepts of resilience and sustainability to critically assess the historical and cultural transformation of cities and the role of local government in maintaining a sustainable community.
A historic city that served as the national capital for close to 250 years, where Christians, Moslems, and Jews lived side by side for centuries, and once dubbed “Paris de l’Abyssinie” by European travelers because of its rich cultural resources, modern artifacts, and setting of new fashions, today Gondar is experiencing stagnation and decline because of changes that moved the center of political power from the city to Addis Ababa in the central part of the country. Since the last century, Gondar has been struggling to maintain its identity as the historical and cultural center of Ethiopia.
This book also gives insights on some of Gondar’s extraordinary historic issues/subjects including who were the main construction workers that built the Fasil castle, how did the Ethiopian Orthodox churches of Gondar sustain themselves for centuries, where is kurate Reesu (the 16th century painting of Christ with crown of thorns) treasured by Gondarian emperors, how did the tabot of Abune Teklehaymanot of Debre Libanos (the most influential church in Ethiopia) end up in Azezo (Gondar) and stayed there for over 260 years, and who were the main royal women that opposed the Jesuits plan of converting Ethiopia to Catholicism?
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planning for Cities in Crisis
Book Subtitle: Lessons from Gondar, Ethiopia
Authors: Mulatu Wubneh
Series Title: Local and Urban Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18416-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18415-4Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18418-5Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18416-1Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-5449
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 315
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Governance and Government, Public Policy