The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) posted on 18 August 2020 an interview by Judd Devermont, CSIS, with Biruk Terrefe, PhD candidate at Oxford, titled "Toward Urban Spaces: Learning from Ethiopia's Recent Transport and City Beautification Initiatives."
Large top down infrastructure projects such as the Addis Ababa light rail system built by China often fail to integrate the project appropriately into urban spaces.