Themes in Urban Infrastructure Research in Ethiopian Cities

Abstract

Chapter examines foremost types of urban infrastructure which are popularly investigated together with the cities where these investigations are exe-cuted. Review attempts to synthesize the unique characteristics of Ethiopian cities in term of their infrastructure paucity or; abundance otherwise. Wherever you go, in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, construction of a solid structure could be easily seen, this is what we say infrastructure boom (BBC 2014) but the scenario is not the same across all Ethiopian cities, indeed; glitches even exists at the capital. A total of 189 different research topics concerned to urban infrastructure and services were reviewed in this study which is the subject matter of the first part of this chapter. Whilst the second part offers minutiae of 78 scru-tinized Ethiopian cities, varying in size, population and location.