Peri-Urban Developments and Processes in Africa with Special Reference to Zimbabwe

1. Introduction
Innocent Chirisa, Shingai T. Kawadza, Elias Mazhindu, Elmond Bandauko

Part I. Political Economy of Peri-Urban Transformations in Zimbabwe

2. Political Economy of Peri-urban Transformations in Conditions of Neoliberalism in Zimbabwe
Elias Mazhindu

Part II. Technological Applications and Solutions

3. Prospects and Problems of Applying Earth Observation to the Management of Peri-urban Harare
Innocent Chirisa, Munyaradzi Shekede

4. Peri-urbanisation and Appropriate Technology in Harare, Zimbabwe: Putting the Grassroots Housing Model to Task
Innocent Chirisa

Part III. Economic Experiences and Livelihoods

5. Irrigation Cooperative as a Strategy of Peri-urban Poverty Reduction: Case Study of Ward 5 in Epworth, Harare
Livinia Binala

Part IV. Environmental Issues

6. Access to Safe Water and Sanitation in Epworth, Zimbabwe
Never Mujere

7. A Case for Inclusive Growth Through Green Economies in Peri-urban Sub-saharan Africa
Innocent Chirisa, Archimedes Muzenda, Elmond Bandauko

Part V. Emergence, Development and Management of Satellite Towns: Challenges and Opportunities

8. The Ruwa Exceptionality: Scanning Location, Corporatism and Place Marketing Factors in Peri-urban Development
Innocent Chirisa, Joel Chaeruka

9. Establishment of New Satellite Towns in Zimbabwe: Old Wine in New Skins?
Innocent Chirisa, Elmond Bandauko, Archimedes Muzenda

Part VI. Land Use Policies, Management and Practices in Peri-Urban Areas

10. The Plight of Peri-urban Communities—A Case Study of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Linda Magwaro-Ndiweni, Virginia Madiro

11. Analysing Policy Responses to the Dilemmas of Peri-urbanity and Land Management in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Harare
Kudzai Chatiza

Keywords: Social Sciences, Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Economic Geography