Secondary Cities and Local Governance in Southern Africa

This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances. Among the challenges are governance under conditions of resource scarcity, managing informality, the effects and responses to climate change and the cha...

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Other Authors: Matamanda, Abraham R. (Editor), Chakwizira, James (Editor), Chatiza, Kudzai (Editor), Nel, Verna (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Local and Urban Governance
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Chapter 1: Introduction, (Matamanda et al.) -- Chapter 2: Rapid Urbanisation and Urban Governance Responses in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe (Tazviona Richman Gambe) -- Chapter 3: Exploring Nelspruit as a Historical Spatial Jigsaw Corridor Based Secondary City: A Spatial Governance Geographical Perspective (James Chakwizira) -- Chapter 4: Governance in South African Secondary Cities (Marais and Nel) -- Chapter 5: Transactional And Supplementary Strategies For Accessing Land Among Migrants On The Margins: An Ethnographic Study Among Malawian Migrants At Lydiate Informal Settlement, Zimbabwe (Bhanye et al) -- Chapter 6: Public Land Management, Corruption and the Quest for Sustainable Secondary Cities in Zimbabwe (Chavunduka and Tsikira) -- Chapter 7: Emaciated Potential: Reflecting on How War and Natural Disasters Stunt Beira’s National-Regional Importance and What Could be Done About it (Chatiza and Nyevera) --  
505 0 |a Chapter 14: Genius Loci: Unlocking the Particularities and Potentialities of Beitbridge in Zimbabwe to Enhance Public Place Quality (Nicholas Muleya)- Chapter 15:From A Pre-Colonial Dzimbabwe Capital to a Colonial Fort And Beyond: Understanding Masvingo City’s Governance Traditions and Growth Patterns (Kudzai Chatiza and Tariro Nyevera) -- Chapter 16: The Future of Secondary Cities in (Southern) Africa: Concluding Remarks And Research Agenda (Chakwizira et al) 
505 0 |a Chapter 8: Land-Use Planning for Climate Change Adaptation in Secondary Cities: Insights From Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe (Matamanda et al) -- Chapter 9: The Intricacy of Water and Sanitation Management in Masvingo City, Zimbabwe (Gambe and Karakadzai) -- Chapter 10: Governing Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities: Contestations and Struggles From Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe (Mugumbate et al) -- Chapter 11: Changing Centre-Local Relations and The Financing of Urban Development in Secondary Cities: A Comparative Study of Zimbabwe and South Africa (Chavunduka et al) -- Chapter 12: Sasolburg: A Town Built Around the Chemical Industry Suffering Under Poor Governance and Its Environmental Legacy (Nel et al) -- Chapter 13: De-Industrialisation, Urban Governance Challenges and Deteriorating Urban Infrastructure in Norton, Zimbabwe: Is the Town Ruralising? (Martin Magidi) --  
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520 |a This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances. Among the challenges are governance under conditions of resource scarcity, managing informality, the effects and responses to climate change and the changing roles of the cities within the national space economy. It fills the gap in the literature on secondary cities with original case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The authors are all African scholars, working and living in the region with intimate knowledge of the settings they describe. The book is critical as it includes such regional case studies of different secondary cities in Southern Africa but also because of it’s multidisciplinarity: it contains substantive and pertinent issues such as climate change, disaster management, local economic development, and basic services delivery. It considers diverse environments, yet with similar challenges that could provide useful policy and governance proposals for other cities