This book presents ways of shaping the built environment sciences and practices for steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe. Attention to the built environment disciplines and practice is important because of their centrality to economic dynamism and sustainability of urban services. The reverse relationship is also true, because through provision of norms, aspirations, and guidelines; the New Urban Agenda helps in steering the built environment disciplines and practice. The book begins by exploring theoretical and conceptual material on the built environment concept. It recognizes that sub-Saharan African countries and Zimbabwe in particular are operating in a changing environment of rapid urbanization, unemployment, and inequality. Its premise is that the built environment sciences and practice can make a contribution to addressing sustainable development challenges through the introduction of innovations in infrastructure, institutions, and processes that enhance socio-economic growth and development. The book brings together scholarship from various disciplines in the built environment and presents sector initiatives such as those relating to curricula, smart technologies, and cutting-edge innovations in steering sustainable urban development.

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Dr. Charles Chavunduka is Senior Lecturer and Dean in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Planning (University of Wisconsin-Madison), M.Sc. Regional and Urban Planning, and B.A. Honors Geography (University of Zimbabwe). He is External Examiner at the Department of Regional and Urban Planning, Great Zimbabwe University (GZU). He has served as Chief Planning Officer in the Government of Zimbabwe and on several international projects in eastern and southern Africa, dealing with land governance and land use planning. He is Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and the Zimbabwe Institute for Urban and Regional Planners (ZIRUP). He is Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Urban Systems and Innovations for Resilience in Zimbabwe (JUSIRIZ) and Participating Member of the Southern Africa Node under the Network of Excellence for Land Governance in Africa (NELGA). His research interests include sustainable urban and rural development, land policy and management, and land readjustment.

Dr. Innocent Chirisa is Acting Vice Chancellor of Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) and is Full Professor in Environmental Planning and Management and Urban and Regional Planning. He has a keen interest in urban and peri-urban dynamics with a focus on environmental systems dynamics with respect to land use, ecology, water, and energy. Holds a D.Phil. in Social Sciences (University of Zimbabwe). Prof Chirisa is also currently Research Fellow at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, South Africa. He has also served as Visiting Professor at the Chinhoyi University of Technology (Zimbabwe).