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""This book is an outstanding achievement. It makes a major contribution to knowledge on the dynamics driving urban change and redevelopment in cities of the Global South. It does this by focusing on the author’s long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and draws on his observations, experience, and ethnography in the city over 12 years or so, when the city was at the height of a construction boom."" - Claire Mercer, Professor of Human Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and author of The Suburban Frontier: Middle Class Construction in Dar es Salaam ""This is an important and singular work in urban studies. While there are many books on urban infrastructure and the political economy of the built environment, Di Nunzio’s manuscript covers the different modalities, actors, scales, and narratives of a construction boom in an African city, which represents something unprecedented in African urban history. The event and the analysis is well matched in terms of their singularity."" - AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Professorial Fellow at the University of Sheffield and author of The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture

This book is an outstanding achievement. It makes a major contribution to knowledge on the dynamics driving urban change and redevelopment in cities of the Global South. It does this by focusing on the author's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and draws on his observations, experience, and ethnography in the city over 12 years or so, when the city was at the height of a construction boom.---Claire Mercer, Professor of Human Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and author of The Suburban Frontier: Middle Class Construction in Dar es Salaam This is an important and singular work in urban studies. While there are many books on urban infrastructure and the political economy of the built environment, Di Nunzio's manuscript covers the different modalities, actors, scales, and narratives of a construction boom in an African city, which represents something unprecedented in African urban history. The event and the analysis is well matched in terms of their singularity.---AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Professorial Fellow at the University of Sheffield and author of The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture

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Marco Di Nunzio is Associate Professor in Urban Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Act of Living (Cornell University Press, 2019) and the director of the documentary A Day in Arada. Marco is also the founding editor of OtherwiseMag, a magazine of ethnographic storytelling.

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