Harare, Zimbabwe

Once, for a Planning Ethics and Politics course, I wrote a paper about catastrophic urban destruction. One cause I neglected to explore was the kind of urbicide being done in Zimbabwe. From the BBC:

The homes of some 200,000 Zimbabwean city dwellers have been demolished in the past three weeks, according to the United Nations.

The complex, post-colonial political rationale for this horrible action are described in the BBC article. This kind of city-clearance cannot be allowed to continue. Some people are noticing - but there doesn't seem to be much action as of yet.

Comments

[Alex Stuart]

Very interesting aerial photo of Harare demolitions.

Can you advise how and where such photos are obtainable.

I need such information so as to do my own Zimbabwe aerial researching.

Regards

Alex Stuart

[Nick Helmholdt]

That photo was taken directly from the BBC article. However, if you give me a few days I can get some notes from a GEO class that list out some of the publicly available satellite images.

My e-mail is H E L M E R S (at) Gmail DOT com