Economic strengthening and the developments associated with it, such as population growth, rural flight, and the explosive growth of cities, pose enormous challenges for city planners in urban centers
throughout the world. But clumsy 'test-tube' urban plans like those developed for China - in part by German planners - have shown that
different standards and rules apply in the non-European world than in Europe's organically developed urban structures.
This manual analyzes contemporary urban phenomena in economic growth regions using the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa as an example, and presents a catalogue of sustainable strategies for city planning practice in the Second and Third Worlds. In the process, it provides planners with generally applicable methods and tools that
are usable at the design stage and equip them to develop and deploy dynamic planning and project management processes. To this
end, it illuminates such topical subjects as the changing agrarian and industrial landscape, the activation of urban wastelands, and the increasing density of urban hubs. In addition, it uses real projects
as examples to highlight avenues for practical implementation.