Harare: Inheriting a Settler-Colonial City: Change or Continuity? by Carole Rakodi

Abstract

Carole Rakodi has wide experience of planning and urban research in many parts of the world, particularly southern and eastern Africa. Her book on Harare provides enormous amounts of information on that city, but also supplies fascinating insights into the complexities of urban change with the advent of demoracy in formerly minory-ruled southern Africa. The book constitutes an enquiry into the ‘balance between continuity and change’ (p. 8) under these circumstances.