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Accepted Paper:
Marib Urban Vision? Preserving the Commons in Yemen's Fastest Growing City
Cameron Middleton
(UN Habitat)
Paper short abstract:
Marib, Yemen has effectively weathered many dimensions of the country's devastating civil war: holding its own despite military sieges, natural disasters, and demonstrating community cohesion despite the fact that IDPs now vastly outnumber the host community by 80%.
Paper long abstract:
Marib, Yemen has effectively weathered many dimensions of the country's devastating civil war: holding its own despite military sieges, natural disasters, and demonstrating community cohesion despite the fact that IDPs now vastly outnumber the host community by 80%. With its new population of 3 million, many of Marib's residents have experienced multiple displacements. This paper presents personal research conducted through the course of work for UN Habitat based on quantitative urban scorecard polling (R:1536) and 32 qualitative interviews with local residents. Marib has faced many of the most pressing urban growth and migration challenges of our day and leaves numerous questions for further investigation. Marib's integration of IDPs offers a unique case study of a control group to questions for conflict recovery 'durable solutions' in Yemen because it was largely off the radar of the international humanitarian response until two years ago. Marib is the product of a hybrid customary (tribal)-state system that has self-organized between formal and informal codes and multiple national and international government interests to negotiate significant infrastructure projects for its natural oil and gas and electricity. Marib ability to maintain the social contract it has established between citizens and its governing authorities will be tested as it negotiates tenure agreements over the lands by the tribes to IDP newcomers and informal neighborhoods are upgraded and incorporated into the city's services in a way that does not sacrifice its agricultural and water resources past the point of return.
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Accepted Paper:
Cameron Middleton (UN Habitat)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Marib, Yemen has effectively weathered many dimensions of the country's devastating civil war: holding its own despite military sieges, natural disasters, and demonstrating community cohesion despite the fact that IDPs now vastly outnumber the host community by 80%. With its new population of 3 million, many of Marib's residents have experienced multiple displacements. This paper presents personal research conducted through the course of work for UN Habitat based on quantitative urban scorecard polling (R:1536) and 32 qualitative interviews with local residents. Marib has faced many of the most pressing urban growth and migration challenges of our day and leaves numerous questions for further investigation. Marib's integration of IDPs offers a unique case study of a control group to questions for conflict recovery 'durable solutions' in Yemen because it was largely off the radar of the international humanitarian response until two years ago. Marib is the product of a hybrid customary (tribal)-state system that has self-organized between formal and informal codes and multiple national and international government interests to negotiate significant infrastructure projects for its natural oil and gas and electricity. Marib ability to maintain the social contract it has established between citizens and its governing authorities will be tested as it negotiates tenure agreements over the lands by the tribes to IDP newcomers and informal neighborhoods are upgraded and incorporated into the city's services in a way that does not sacrifice its agricultural and water resources past the point of return.
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Cities, Urbanisation, and the Politics of Urban Infrastructure Systems
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -