Author(s)

A. Gossaye

Abstract

Focusing on the case of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, this paper addresses the renewal of old inner-city areas of the developing countries. It is rather common both in developed and developing countries, that most inner-city neighbourhoods in the initial stage of their formation establish a balance between residential and commercial activities. The prevailing trend toward increasing commercialisation appears to be in rriost cases the predominant threat to the inner-city poor resulting in uprooting people and dwellings, destroying the micro-business and the informal economy established in the area, gentrification and marginalization of the poor. In what follows, the paper will describe and briefly analyse the causes of the wid

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