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The final chapter, From Crisis to Action: Emerging Perspectives and the Morphing of a Sustainable Urban Future post-COVID-19 Pandemic, concludes the book, exploring the changing landscape of urban sustainability in the wake of the pandemic. The chapter presents how the pandemic affected urban systems, particularly the urban poor, and highlights innovative solutions and emerging perspectives that can shape a more sustainable and resilient future. First, the chapter presents the key issues and emerging perspectives from the book. The second section focuses on poor urbanites and COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating how the pandemic was particularly harsh on poor urbanites. Third, the chapter presents the theoretical underpinning in light of the urban poor as reflected through the complexity, distributive justice, urban healthy penalty, and rights to the city theories during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourth, the chapter presents the morphing of a sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and equitable urban future in the post-COVID-19 pandemic, providing recommendations for building a more sustainable and equitable urban future in Zimbabwe post-COVID-19 pandemic phase. The final section concludes the chapter.
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Bhanye, J.I., Mangara, F., Matamanda, A.R., Kachena, L. (2023). From Crisis to Action: Emerging Perspectives and the Morphing of a Sustainable Urban Future Post-COVID-19 Pandemic. In: COVID-19 Lockdowns and the Urban Poor in Harare, Zimbabwe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41669-9_6
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