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Harare
This chapter reviews the performance of master planning in an African city using the case of Harare, Zimbabwe. During the year 2020, the Harare...
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Informal sector counterpower in Harare, Zimbabwe
African city governments have generally been harsh on the informal sector. Informal traders are considered a nuisance and unworthy of government...
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Exiting Commercial Sex Work: a Case of Adolescent Street Girls of the Harare Central Business District in Zimbabwe
The paper interrogates narratives of adolescent street girls of the Harare Central Business District, Zimbabwe, exiting commercial sex work. A...
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Effects of COVID-19 on the Livelihoods of Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe: A Study of Three Low-Income Areas in Harare Metropolitan Province
This study documents how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the livelihoods of women with disabilities in three low-income urban areas of Zimbabwe’s...
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Local Governance and Wetlands Management: A Tale of Harare City in Zimbabwe
For years, urban scholars have underscored the value of pristine and functioning ecosystems, including urban wetlands, to human life. However, less...
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Living on the Periphery and Challenges of Mobility: a Tale of Transport-Induced Social Exclusion in Southlea Park, Harare, Zimbabwe
This article explores how geographical location contributes to the social exclusion of communities on the fringes of the city. It uses a case study...
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Creating Age-Friendly Informal Settlements? Challenges to Enabling Health and Well-being for Older People in Informal Urban Harare
Achieving Healthy Ageing and well-being for older people is a growing global concern. Healthy Ageing has significant implications for all sustainable...
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Rethinking Social Housing Provisions and Public Health in Emerging Low-Income Peri-Urban Human Settlements, an Expose from Harare, Zimbabwe
Cities in Africa are rapidly growing spatially and demographically. Despite having a history of evictions while safe-guarding public health, there is...
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Living in an Emerging Settlement: the Story of Hopley Farm Settlement, Harare Zimbabwe
A phenomenological research design guided the study that documented the daily lives of citizens living in emerging settlements. Hopley Farm...
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‘Where Art Thou?’: Ethnocracy, Toponymic Silence, and Toponymic Subjugation in the Harare Commemorative Landscapes During the Mugabe Era (1980–2017)
This article explores the post-colonial national identity formation using place names that commemorate the nation’s past in Zimbabwe. Place name...
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Wetlands Preservation in Urban Areas
Environmental ecosystems, particularly wetlands, have a bearing toward mitigation and adaptation of climate change processes. With regard to urban...
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“They Do Not Perceive Us as People”: Women with Disabilities’ Access to Key Social Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Zimbabwean Case Study
This study sought to discover how women with disabilities (WWDs) fared at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic with regard to access to key social...
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Urban Informality: Sponsored or Agentive Materialization?
Globally urban spaces have historically been centres of struggles and transformation. With particular reference to selected urban informal...
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Rent as Ransom: Lodging and Food Security in Gweru, Zimbabwe
The early 1990s were a crucial turning point in Zimbabwe. Not only was the Structural Adjustment Program (ESAP) initiated in 1990, but the country...
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Learning from Cape Town Desegregation: Khayelitsha
This chapter analyses the outcomes of policies in Cape Town, informed by the current desegregation process. Attempts at inclusion are tested through...
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The Tale of Two Capital Cities: the Effects of Urbanisation and Spatial Planning Heritage in Zimbabwe and Zambia
This paper examines the effects of urbanisation in the capital cities of Zimbabwe and Zambia with specific reference to their inherited spatial...
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Chiheras’ Twenty-First-Century Profiling: Re-converging from Past Divisions in Monolithic Defying of Traditional Patriarchal Culture
Chihera, the female title of the Mhofu yemukono, also known as nhuka (the Eland) totem is one of the most talked about totems in various discussions...
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Materiality, Architectural Re-figuration and Identity
Although the state appeared to possess autonomous power in the representation and materialization of architectural products, the practice and...
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Placing Climate Change in Wetland Conservation and Urban Agriculture Contestations in Harare, Zimbabwe
This chapter qualitatively interrogates the impact of urban agriculture on urban wetland conservation in Harare, Zimbabwe, with reference to Monavale...