Haile Selassie's Imperial Modernity: Expatriate Architects and the Shaping of Addis Ababa

2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayala Levin
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
African Unity ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
Organization Of African Unity ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

In the 1960s, Addis Ababa experienced a construction boom, spurred by its new international stature as the seat of both the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the Organization of African Unity. Working closely with Emperor Haile Selassie, expatriate architects played a major role in shaping the Ethiopian capital as a symbol of an African modernity in continuity with tradition. Haile Selassie's Imperial Modernity: Expatriate Architects and the Shaping of Addis Ababa examines how a distinct Ethiopian modernity was negotiated through various borrowings from the past, including Italian colonial planning, both at the scale of the individual building and at the scale of the city. Focusing on public buildings designed by Italian Eritrean Arturo Mezzedimi, French Henri Chomette, and the partnership of Israeli Zalman Enav and Ethiopian Michael Tedros, Ayala Levin critically explores how international architects confronted the challenges of mediating Haile Selassie's vision of an imperial modernity.

After a Symposium on Development — The Red Cross in Africa

1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (170) ◽  
pp. 223-229
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
The United Nations

As announced in the last issue of the International Review, a Symposium on the Development of the Red Cross in Africa was recently held at Montreux (Switzerland). It was organized by the League of Red Cross Societies and attended by officers of thirty-five African Societies and representatives of eight of the main donor Societies which had contributed to the programme for the development of the Red Cross in Africa over the past ten years. Experts from African universities, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and other United Nations agencies also attended the Symposium, as did representatives of the League, the ICRC and the Joint Committee for the Reappraisal of the Role of the Red Cross.

What Role for E.C.A.? or Pan-Africanism Revisited

1971 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. Magee
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
The World ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
To Come ◽  
As If

For most organisations, a tenth anniversary session is a time for dwelling on the significance of past achievements while resolutely insisting that the best is yet to come in terms of new initiatives. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (E.C.A.) proved to be no exception when it met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during late January and early February 1969. Yet, behind the formal façade of celebration, one sensed an anxious attempt to overstate the results of past efforts in order to enlist support for a dynamic future which seems highly improbable. Because E.C.A. as an institution faces a serious crisis of confidence, its secretariat and its supporters seemed to seize on the tenth anniversary celebrations almost as if this were the last chance to change radically the Commission's role and image in the eyes of both Africa and the world. Indeed, the 1969 Commission session marked the culmination of an attempt by Robert K. A. Gardiner – the Commission's able Executive Secretary – and his associates to reverse the downward trend of E.C.A.'s influence and prestige since those halcyon early days of 1958–9 when Africans had such great hopes for their Commission.

Improving the Comparability of International Migration Statistics: Contributions by the Conference of European Statisticians from 1971 to Date

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1017-1037 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Migration ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
International Comparability

During the past fifteen years the Conference of European Statisticians, a Principal Subsidiary Body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the United Nations Statistical Commission, has actively worked on improving the quality and international comparability of international migration statistics. This article summarizes the principal activities the Conference has pursued and the progress it has achieved in this field during this period through its contributions to the preparation and implementation of the United Nations recommendations on international migration statistics, its regular exchange of statistics on international migration flows among member countries and the bilateral studies on international migration member countries are conducting at its request.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
B. T. G. Chidzero
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Other ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
The United Nations

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) with its headquarters at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was established in 1958 under resolution 67aA (XXV) of the Economic and Social Council. It is one of the four regional commissions of the United Nations, the other three, which were established much earlier, being the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) with headquarters in Geneva, the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) with Bangkok, Thailand, as its headquarters and the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) at Santiago de Chili. The establishment of these regional commissions was a result of the need and desirability to decentralize United Nations activities, not only on a functional but also on a geographical basis.

ECAFE and Economic Cooperation in Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
A. Rashid Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Far East ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
Historic Landmark

1. At the 16th session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), held at Bangkok in Marchl960, a resolution was passed unanimously (Annex I) urging greater cooperation among countries of the ECAFE region in order to achieve accelerated economic and social development. This might well be regarded as a historic landmark: while regional cooperation had been taking place already in some measure through the forums of ECAFE and other international or regional bodies, never before was the desire for it voiced in such unambiguous and concrete terms. It is, therefore, appropriate and timely to study the past efforts and future possibilities of such cooperation.

The E.C.A. Library, Addis Ababa

1963 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-545
Author(s):  
Surjit Singh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
Full List ◽  
Comprehensive List ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
The Government ◽  
First Session

Soon after the first session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa in January 1959, a Library was established to serve the needs of the Commission's secretariat. A comprehensive list of all the publications concerning Africa available at the U.N. Headquarters Library in New York was prepared as a basis for the acquisition of material. Lists were also drawn up of the government publications required from each individual country, dating back to 1950 (1958 for annuals and periodicals), and these were obtained from the governments concerned. Constant contact is maintained with them, to keep the collection up to date. Non-government publications were purchased through the Headquarters Library during the first four years. Since 1963, the Library has placed orders through booksellers in each country in Africa, and a few others elsewhere. A full list of booksellers in Africa is now being compiled, and will be published as soon as possible.

Economic and Social Council

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 989-1001
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
United Nations ◽  
African Unity ◽  
South West ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
Organization Of African Unity ◽  
South West Africa

Economic Commission for Africa: The eighth session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), held on February 13–25, 1967, in Lagos, Nigeria, was attended by 29 African states, five associate members, 27 observers, and representatives of United Nations organs and other organizations. The Chairman, A. A. Ayida (Nigeria), stated that Botswana, Gambia, and Lesotho, after accession to independence, were now full members of the Commission. Following the report of the Executive Secretary on the measures taken in pursuance of a Commission resolution on the participation of the peoples of Angola, Mozambique, Portuguese Guinea, and South West Africa in the work of the Commission ECA unanimously adopted a resolution which recommended that the Organization of African Unity (OAU) designate the representatives of the territories concerned and inform the secretariat accordingly.

Problems of Analysis of Design and Research Methods of Interaction with the Urban Environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
П. В. Капустин ◽  
А. И. Гаврилов
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
The Past ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Historical Dynamics ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City ◽  
Research And Design

Состояние проблемы. Проблематика городской среды заявила о себе в 1960-е годы как протест против модернистских методов урбанизма и других видов проектирования. Средовое движение не случайно тогда именовали «антипрофессиональным» - оно было направлено против устоявшихся и недейственных методов работы с городом - от исследования до управления. За прошедшие десятилетия в рамках самого средового движения и его идейных наследников наработано немало методов и приемов работы, однако они до сих не подвергались анализу как пребывающая в исторической динамике целостная совокупность инструментария, альтернативного традиционному градостроительству. Результаты. Рассмотрены особенности и проблемы анализа методологического «арсенала» средового движения и урбанистики. Методы работы с городской средой впервые структурированы по типам знания. Показана близость методов исследовательского и проектного подходов в отношении городской среды. Выводы. В ближайшее время можно ожидать появления новых синтетических знаний и частных методологий, связанных как с обострением средовой проблематики, с расширением круга средовых акторов, так и с процессом профессионализации урбанистики. Statement of the problem. The urban environment paradigm emerged in the 1960s as a protest against the modernist methods of urbanism and other types of design. It was no coincidence that the environmental movement was back then called "anti-professional" as it was directed against the established and ineffective methods of working with the city, i. e., from research to management. Over the past decades, within the framework of the environmental movement and its ideological heirs, a lot of methods and have been developed. However, they have not yet been analyzed as an integral set of tools in the historical dynamics which is an alternative to traditional urban planning. Results. The features and problems of the analysis of the methodological “arsenal” of environmental movement and urban studies are considered. The methods of working with the urban environment are first structured according to the types of knowledge. The proximity of research and design approaches in the case when the urban environment is dealt with is shown. Conclusions. In the nearest future, we can expect new synthetic knowledge and particular methodologies related to both the exacerbation of environmental problems to emerge as well as the expansion of the circle of environmental actors and the process of professionalization of urbanstics.

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