What effect does peri-urbanisation have on the Quality of Life of the original inhabitants of peri-urban areas in Zimbabwe?

Sometime in 2019, a colleague in the field of rural and urban (spatial) planning, Jeofrey Matai, and I had a discussion about the escalating rate of peri-urbanisation in Zimbabwe. Most rural areas on the fringes of the country’s established cities, such as Harare, Bulawayo and Mutare,  and towns like Chitungwiza and Plumtree have become predominantly …

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