Heritage Conservation Oriented Planning Heritage Policy In Light Of Sustainable Urban Planning The Case Of Piazza Ldp Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa, the present capital city of Ethiopia, was established over 120 yearsrnago by Emperor Menelik II. Founded as a garrison town, the city grew without arnguiding master plan for which we observe predominantly organic layout withrnmixed land uses of different nature.rnThe brief Italian colonization improved road’s, created new buildings, andrnattempted to implement a master plan, which would have split the living areas ofrnthe indigenous population of the city from the Italians. The substantialrntransformation planned according to the master plan was not put in to practice.rnThis allows a reading of the city’s astonishing history and exceptional architecturernthrough its old buildings and the paths linking them.rnThese buildings often lack maintenance or are even ruined, having been used forrnpractical purposes that have disrupted their original features day after day. Thernquestion of their survival is aggravated by strong redevelopment pressure fromrnthe solely profit oriented market environment.rnEvery built up environment can not adjust limitlessly to changes of dynamic needsrnof the society but when it reaches to the point where it could no longer satisfy thernneeds of the market it will suffer one of the two fates: adaptive reuse as culturalrnheritage or demolishing.rnTherefore, this research paper is intended to identify clearly the pros and cons ofrnthis redevelopment pressure on the cultural heritages of the city Addis Ababa,rnevaluate current policies and regulations as well as enforcement methodologyrnconcerning conservation of cultural heritages and come up with relevantrnrecommendation on the policy and policy enforcement measures.rnTo do this what I have done is first deeply analyze the current internationalrnpolicies regarding built up cultural heritages and also tried to analyze the currentrnpolicies in the local context, then also tried to analyze the policy enforcementrnmechanism of the city by studying the master plan and also deeply analyzed thernspecific policy enforcement mechanism by analyzing the local developmentrnplan of the case area, piazza.rnApart from analyzing the policy enforcement mechanism, I also studied thernactivities made so far with an effort of the preservation and conservation of therncity by any of the stake holders, Governmental and non-governmental. Alongrnwith this I also have tried to deeply analyze the physical conditions of the culturalrnheritages and their functional aspects, the developments around them and crossrncheck with all the above stated efforts as well as policy measure.rnThen after I tried to analyze the short comings of all the efforts starting from policyrnlevel up to the implementation of the policy, the drawback and also the merits ofrnthe efforts by all the stake holders and reached on a summarized conclusion asrnan answer for the research question which helps me to draw relevantrnrecommendations

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