This book focuses on peri-urban development processes in Africa, with special emphasis on Zimbabwe. The debates included highlight a number of issues in the peri-urban context, such as access to water, appropriate technologies and land management, political economy in the peri-urban space, peri-urban agriculture, and place marketing in peri-urban development, among others. The debates raised by the authors in this book revolve around locating the peri-urban space within the context of sustainability, in which key issues are addressed.

The book essentially examines peri-urban development processes from various angles in an effort to understand how peri-urban areas develop, function, and how their residents survive. Per-urban dwellers currently face numerous challenges, including land tenure insecurity, poor infrastructure and services, land use conflicts, stringent planning law and land use planning regulations.

This work seeks to address the knowledgegap on peri-urban development processes in Africa, and is also intended to inform urban policy practice in the African Cities and beyond. Offering policy makers valuable insights on the peri-urban space, it provides guidance for decision-making in the contexts of service delivery, land management, housing, new town development and place marketing, among others.

Collects recent case studies reflecting peri-urban policy initiatives and associated conflicts Interrogates the political economy of peri-urban governance in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa Closes the theoretical gap between official planning policy expectations and the experiences of the excluded ordinary residents Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
1 Conceptualising and Contextualising Peri-urban and Peri-urbanisation: Scope, Dimentions and Limits.- 2 Peri-Urban Agriculture in Southern Africa: Miracle or Mirage?.- 3 Prospects and Problems of Applying Earth Observation in the Management of Peri-urban Harare.