Resilience has become a very topical issue transcending many spheres and sectors of sustainable urban development. This book presents a resilience framework for sustainable cities and towns in Africa. The rise in informal settlements is due to the urban planning practices in most African cities that rarely reflect the realities of urban life and environment for urban development. Aspects of places, people and process are central to the concept of urban resilience and sustainable urban growth. It stems from the observation that urban vulnerability is on the increase in Zimbabwe and beyond. In history, disasters have adversely affected nations across the world, inflicting wide ranging losses on one hand while on the other hand creating development opportunities for urban communities. Cooperation in disaster management is a strategy for minimising losses and uplifting the affected urban settlements. The significance of urban planning and design in the growth and development of sustainableurban centres is well documented. Urbanisation has brought with it challenges that most developing countries such as Zimbabwe are not equipped to handle. This has been accompanied by problems such as overpopulation, overcrowding, shortages of resources and the growth of slum settlements. There need is to seriously consider urban planning and design in order to come up with contemporary designs that are resilient to current urban challenges. There are major gaps in urban resilience building for instance in Harare and the local authority needs to prioritise investment in resilient urban infrastructure.

Contextualises resilience and sustainability to Africa as a Global South point of reference Appeals to a transdisciplinary audience including engineers, planners, geographers, policy-makers, sociologists and city managers Demystifies resilience and sustainability by bringing to the fore different case studies and issues related to the matters ?

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Innocent Chirisa is a full professor at the Department of Demography Settlement and Development, University of Zimbabwe. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe and a Research Fellow at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, South Africa. His research interests are systems dynamics in urban land, regional stewardship and resilience in human habitats.
Andrew Chigudu is a part-time lecturer with the Department of Architecture and Real estate at the University of Zimbabwe. He is an academic and seasoned spatial planning practitioner. Andrew holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree MSc in Urban Design with the National University of Science and Technology and BSc in Rural and Urban Planning with University of Zimbabwe. He is the Executive Director for Full Life Open Arms Africa Investment since November 2019. Before this he was the Managing Director for Hello Project Developers for 8 years. Andrew is the current Vice President for Zimbabwe Institute for Regional and Urban Planning (ZIRUP). He has authored and co-authored in refereed journals.

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Resilience and Sustainability in Urban Land Dynamics in Africa: A Review.- The Many Faces to Resilience and the Practical Implications to Urban Development and Management in Zimbabwe.- Disaster Management Capabilities in Zimbabwe: The Context of Africa Agenda 2063.- Planning and Design as Defining Parameters for Urban Resilience: The Case of Zimbabwe.- Climate-Resilient Infrastructure for Water and Energy in Greater Harare.- Building Urban Resilience in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Case Study of the City of Harare, Zimbabwe.- Urban Resilience under Austerity: A Case Study of Street Children Vending in the Harare Central Business District, Post-2018.- Resilience-Based Interventions to Street Childhood among Street Children in Zimbabwe.- Childcare and Familial Relations During the Migration Period.- Resilience as a Governance Factor: The Case of Institutional Multiplicity in the Planning of Caledonia, Harare.- 'Land Barons' as the Elephant in the Room: Planning and the Managementof Urban Space in Chitungwiza and Harare.- Climate Change and the Resilience Cause in Masvingo City Urban Landscape, Zimbabwe.- Towards a Resilience Framework for Urban Zimbabwe.