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Seeking Urban Transformation. Alternative Urban Futures in Zimbabwe tells the stories of ordinary people's struggles to remake urban centres. It interrogates and highlights the principle conditions in which urban transformation takes place. The main catalysts of the transformation are social mo...

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Main Author: Muchadenyika, Davison (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press, 2020.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Tables, Boxes and Figures -- Acronyms -- Chronology (1890-2018) -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Transformation Drivers -- Transformation drivers -- Key arguments -- Structure of the book -- 2. Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives -- Urban transformation defined -- Social movements -- Resource mobilization theory -- Political opportunity structures -- Radical planning -- The case for radical planning -- Transformative theory: A conceptual framework -- Social movements as agents of social transformation 
505 8 |a Radical planning as means for social transformation -- Conclusion -- 3. Planning and Housing: A History -- Colonial planning and housing (1890-1979) -- Post-independence planning and housing (1980-2018) -- Housing policy developments -- Repeal of pass laws (1980) and rent control regulations (1982) -- Home-ownership policy -- Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order -- National Housing Policy 2012 -- Housing delivery projects -- Housing and Guarantee Fund -- Housing Upgrading Programme -- Urban I and II -- Zimbabwe Private Sector Housing Programme -- LARP and Homelink Housing Development Scheme 
505 8 |a National Housing Delivery Programme (2004-08) -- Housing projects (2009-13) -- Conclusion -- 4. Metropolitan Harare: Past, Present and Future -- Harare City -- Siting and early development (1890-1946) -- Colonial planning and housing crisis (1946-1980) -- Chitungwiza Town -- Post-independence urban expansion and housing (1980-2015) -- Epworth -- Squatter settlement upgrading programme (1980-2005) -- Rapid expansion and in situ upgrading (2005-2015) -- Conclusion -- 5. Urban Economies, Politics and Governance (1980-2018) -- Urban governance reforms and stable urban economies (1980-2000) 
505 8 |a Contestation and informalized urban economies (2000-18) -- City of Harare governance (2000-2018) -- Housing: A growing challenge -- Co-operative and federation movement -- Conclusion -- 6. Harare: the Transformation of a City -- Infrastructure development from below -- Taking advantage of political opportunities -- Women in action -- Policy changes to support grassroots-driven approaches -- Learning and adopting inclusive strategies -- From demolitions to regularization -- Governing urban movements -- Land invasions and allocation -- Contestations over land access -- Conclusion 
505 8 |a 7. Chitungwiza: A Fractured City -- Housing development from below -- Taking advantage of political opportunities -- Intra-party struggles -- Governing housing co-operatives -- Co-operatives and town planning principles -- From demolitions to regularization -- Land delivery process and institutional arrangements -- Institutional capacity to govern -- Institutional capacity to plan -- Conclusion -- 8. Epworth: The Informal-Formal Transition -- Informal land markets and land access -- From 'squatters' to residents -- From 'squatters' to voters -- Struggles and contestations 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
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