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Resilience and Sustainability in Urban Africa

Context, Facets and Alternatives in Zimbabwe

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Editors:
  1. Innocent Chirisa

    1. Department of Demography Settlement and Development, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Zimbabwe

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  2. Andrew Chigudu

    1. Department of Architecture and Real Estate, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

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  • Contextualises resilience and sustainability to Africa as a Global South point of reference
  • Appeals to a transdisciplinary audience including engineers, planners, geographers, policy-makers, sociologists and city managers
  • Demystifies resilience and sustainability by bringing to the fore different case studies and issues related to the matters ?

Part of the book series: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (ACHS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Resilience and Sustainability in Urban Land Dynamics in Africa: A Review

    • Innocent Chirisa, Verna Nel
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Many Faces to Resilience and the Practical Implications to Urban Development and Management in Zimbabwe

    • Tinashe N. Mujongonde-Kanonhuhwa, Innocent Chirisa
    Pages 25-36

  4. Disaster Management Capabilities in Zimbabwe: The Context of Africa Agenda 2063

    • Godfrey Chikowore, John David Nhavira, Terence Motida Mashonganyika, Constantine Munhande
    Pages 37-54

  5. Planning and Design as Defining Parameters for Urban Resilience: The Case of Zimbabwe

    • Andrew Chigudu
    Pages 55-68

  6. Climate-Resilient Infrastructure for Water and Energy in Greater Harare

    • Yvonne Munanga, Shamiso Hazel Mafuku
    Pages 69-85

  7. Building Urban Resilience in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Case Study of Harare, Zimbabwe

    • Elmond Bandauko
    Pages 87-101

  8. Urban Resilience Under Austerity: A Case Study of Street Children Vending in the Harare Central Business District, Post-2018

    • Witness Chikoko, Samson Mhizha, Langton Mundau
    Pages 103-113

  9. Resilience-Based Interventions to Street Childhood Among Street Children in Zimbabwe

    • Samson Mhizha, Blessing Marandure, Witness Chikoko
    Pages 115-129

  10. Childcare and Familial Relations During the Migration Period

    • Thebeth R. Masunda, Pranitha Maharaj
    Pages 131-146

  11. Resilience as a Governance Factor: The Case of Institutional Multiplicity in the Planning of Caledonia, Harare

    • Tinashe Bobo, Audrey N. Kwangwama
    Pages 147-169

  12. ‘Land Barons’ as the Elephant in the Room: Planning and the Management of Urban Space in Chitungwiza and Harare

    • Innocent Chirisa, Abraham Rajab Matamanda, Emma Maphosa, Roselyn Ncube
    Pages 171-188

  13. Climate Change and the Resilience Cause in Masvingo City Urban Landscape, Zimbabwe

    • Washington M. Mbaura
    Pages 189-214

  14. Towards a Resilience Framework for Urban Zimbabwe

    • Patience Mukuzunga, Christine R. Chivandire, Innocent Chirisa
    Pages 215-228
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Keywords

About this book

Resilience has become a very topical issue transcending many spheres and sectors of sustainable urban development. This book presents a resilience framework for sustainable cities and towns in Africa. The rise in informal settlements is due to the urban planning practices in most African cities that rarely reflect the realities of urban life and environment for urban development. Aspects of places, people and process are central to the concept of urban resilience and sustainable urban growth. It stems from the observation that urban vulnerability is on the increase in Zimbabwe and beyond. In history, disasters have adversely affected nations across the world, inflicting wide ranging losses on one hand while on the other hand creating development opportunities for urban communities. Cooperation in disaster management is a strategy for minimising losses and uplifting the affected urban settlements. The significance of urban planning and design in the growth and development of sustainableurban centres is well documented. Urbanisation has brought with it challenges that most developing countries such as Zimbabwe are not equipped to handle. This has been accompanied by problems such as overpopulation, overcrowding, shortages of resources and the growth of slum settlements. There need is to seriously consider urban planning and design in order to come up with contemporary designs that are resilient to current urban challenges. There are major gaps in urban resilience building for instance in Harare and the local authority needs to prioritise investment in resilient urban infrastructure. ​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Demography Settlement and Development, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Zimbabwe

    Innocent Chirisa

  • Department of Architecture and Real Estate, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

    Andrew Chigudu

About the editors

Innocent Chirisa is a full professor at the Department of Demography Settlement and Development, University of Zimbabwe. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe and a Research Fellow at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, South Africa. His research interests are systems dynamics in urban land, regional stewardship and resilience in human habitats.


Andrew Chigudu is a part-time lecturer with the Department of Architecture and Real estate at the University of Zimbabwe. He is an academic and seasoned spatial planning practitioner. Andrew holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree MSc in Urban Design with the National University of Science and Technology and BSc in Rural and Urban Planning with University of Zimbabwe. He is the Executive Director for Full Life Open Arms Africa Investment since November 2019. Before this he was the Managing Director for Hello Project Developers for 8 years. Andrew is the current Vice President for Zimbabwe Institute for Regional and Urban Planning (ZIRUP). He has authored and co-authored in refereed journals.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Resilience and Sustainability in Urban Africa

  • Book Subtitle: Context, Facets and Alternatives in Zimbabwe

  • Editors: Innocent Chirisa, Andrew Chigudu

  • Series Title: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3288-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3287-7Published: 03 August 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3290-7Published: 04 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3288-4Published: 02 August 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2198-2546

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-2554

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 228

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sustainable Development, Public Policy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Water, general, Ecology

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