Browsing by Author "Birhanu Girma Abebe (PhD)"

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    An Economic Menace or Growth Opportunity of Land Speculation: The case of Shashemene City
    (Addis Ababa University, 2020-11-01) Bedane Shata Gemeda; Birhanu Girma Abebe (PhD)
    Land speculation in urban and periurban area can be extremely strenuous to the upheld intensification of cities, which is critical to economic development. Inaccurately, speculative land investors, worried about benefits from exchanging landed possessions, can influence urban development supporting populace, where the principle is often inadequately controlled and exceptionally bureaucratic. The key troubles of governing land speculation are rapidly deeming hot spot zones of eagerness, naming land jobbers, and directing encouraging and negative spats of property speculation. The research employed the case study, desk review, and survey research stratagem. Also, multiple regressions, Cumulative Sum statistics, and the Principal Component Analysis systems were used to scrutinize facts. The MORRIS and TOPISS models were also used to rate the space-based expansion of the city. Next to the case study folklore, a mix of various facts collection tools, for instance, questionnaires, Focus Group Discussions, key informant interviews, and direct field observation, were exploited to collect study truths as of the case study district. The Shashemene city admin was intentionally chosen while the case study area in the first stage of the case study district choice procedure. Four urban villages, explicitly: Awasho, Alelu, Burka Gudina, and Buclhena, were chosen in the next stage. Further, policy documents were reviewed, and a survey was conducted to get adequate data. The result indicates that the land worth is assenting and expansively allied with the size of property seizing by regional land jobbers. According to influential variable estimate, one birr m2 swell of land price would prompt local speculators to hoard 39.7𝑚2 more land per year. Land conjecture, which raises land worth 13 times its opportunity outlay - raised societal expenditures by 5.6% to 11.3%. Local GDP turn down by 33%, district revenue lifted by 15.1%, and unfair distribution of the middling property increment worth ratio for farmers (1.8%), local governments (19%), and builders (79.2%) correspondingly. The subsequent three tips are recommended to control land speculation: (1) one-personnel-single-plot law, (2) property value tax and (3) land development time limitations. Keywords: Land speculation, property rights, land rent, opportunity cost, Ethiopia
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    Informal Settlements and Their Impacts on Urban Land Use Planning in Burayu City, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2024-12-01) Tefera Beyera Bayuma; Birhanu Girma Abebe (PhD)
    Informal settlement is one mode of urbanization in developing countries, through which shelter is provided in urban areas such as Burayu City. However, informal settlements continue to create challenges for planned development. The purpose of this study was to analyze informal settlements and their impacts on urban land use planning in Burayu city. This study utilized a case study research design with a combination of quantitative and qualitative research approaches with a range of primary and secondary data sources. Simple random sampling was used to select informal households for the questionnaire survey, while purposive and snowballing sampling was used to select respondents for focus group discussions and key informant interviews. The study also benefited from field observations and documentary reviews. Descriptive statistics and factor analysis were used to determine the satisfaction level, while a Generalized Linear Model was used to analyze predictors of residential satisfaction in terms of the socio-economic and demographic features of the respondents. In the process and factors of informal settlement, qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis, whereas quantitative data were analyzed by descriptive statistics. The interaction among actors was analyzed by social network analysis. Finally, the impact of informal residential use and its conformance with urban land use planning were analyzed based on the conformance analysis method using GIS. The study found that the majority of the residents (54%) were satisfied with their residential areas, as indicated by the positive sustainability indicators. Marital status and occupational type emerged as the main predictors of residential satisfaction. The findings of the study revealed that informal institutions play a decisive support in informal settlement expansion which is reinforced by social networks. The study identified speculation, rural-urban migration, lack of good governance and locational choice as triggering causes for informal settlement development. Moreover, actors use formal institutional ambiguities to participate in informal buildings. Land brokers are the principal actors who play very significant roles in informal land transactions. Furthermore, the findings revealed that 81% of the informal houses occupied more than 140 m2 which is greater than the set standard. The research also found that 69.10% of informal residential land use types iii adhere to the land use plan. In conclusion, the findings of the study indicated that understanding informal settlers' needs, actor interaction networks behaviors and conformance interpretation of informal settlement would not only help to solve this puzzle but would also illuminate the factors driving informal urban expansion. This provides insights for controlling informal development and ameliorating land governance. Key worlds: Burayu City, Conformance, Informal actors, Informal settlement, Land use plan, Residential satisfaction.