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Archimedes Muzenda

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Archimedes Muzenda is city planner and researcher focusing on African cities. He is a senior research associate at the African Urban Institute and author of the book, Dystopian Cities.
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Urban Politics

The Geopolitics of Urbanisation in Africa

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Editor’s Note: This Viewpoint has excerpts from the book, Dystopian Cities: How the Tyranny of Specialists Destroy African Cities, by Archimedes Muzenda...
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Urban Regeneration

Abandoned Buildings in Lagos, Nigeria

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Lagos, Africa’s ‘first city’ is one the fastest growing megacity of the century, a city where the obligation to accommodate the ever-increasing population is...
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Placemaking

On the Edge: Harare’s Urban Heritage and forces of Urban Informality

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Historic buildings in Harare that shape the city’s urban heritage are on the verge of collapse. Efforts to prevent further demolitions and alterations have been initiated but are these efforts going to hold back the forces of informality?
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International Urban Institutions

UN Urban: The Politics of language in Human Settlements Financing

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In the international development, the emergence of new ideas and policy issues as well as scarce funding for development have led to...
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Land Use Planning

Debunking New Urbanism in Harare

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Harare is evidencing a new wave of urbanisation and urban development in the past five years, characterised as New Urbanism, but is it so? If it is, how effective is its application in Harare?
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Land Use Planning

Cremation in Zimbabwe and the calabash of challenges

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Municipalities of major cities in Zimbabwe, Harare and Bulawayo are in a controversial debate of alternative burial method, cremation. Bulawayo recently announced, that it will be cremating children under the age of 10 years upon their parents’ consent, to save burial space.
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International Urban Institutions

Habitat III: A New Urban Agenda is born

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Every 20 years the world convene to talk exclusively about the future of cities. In 2016, the Habitat III conference gathered more...
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Sustainable Cities

The Sustainability Irony of Suburban Solar Carports

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African cities are in a race to keep up with the global trend of environmental sustainability and renewable energy in urban areas.
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Urban Politics

The Geopolitics of Urbanisation in Africa

Archimedes Muzenda - 0
Editor’s Note: This Viewpoint has excerpts from the book, Dystopian Cities: How the Tyranny of Specialists Destroy African Cities, by Archimedes Muzenda...
Read more
Urban Regeneration

Abandoned Buildings in Lagos, Nigeria

Archimedes Muzenda - 0
Lagos, Africa’s ‘first city’ is one the fastest growing megacity of the century, a city where the obligation to accommodate the ever-increasing population is...
Read more
Placemaking

On the Edge: Harare’s Urban Heritage and forces of Urban Informality

Archimedes Muzenda - 0
Historic buildings in Harare that shape the city’s urban heritage are on the verge of collapse. Efforts to prevent further demolitions and alterations have been initiated but are these efforts going to hold back the forces of informality?
Read more
International Urban Institutions

UN Urban: The Politics of language in Human Settlements Financing

Archimedes Muzenda - 0
In the international development, the emergence of new ideas and policy issues as well as scarce funding for development have led to...
Read more
Land Use Planning

Debunking New Urbanism in Harare

Archimedes Muzenda - 0
Harare is evidencing a new wave of urbanisation and urban development in the past five years, characterised as New Urbanism, but is it so? If it is, how effective is its application in Harare?
Read more

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