This is in an innovative South-South collaboration of Midlands State University in Zimbabwe, University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, University of Pretoria Department of Historical and Heritage Studies in South Africa, and the SARDC History Institute in Zimbabwe with support from the Global Centre of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS) at the Technical University of Berlin and the German Academic Exchange Service, in the context of the joint Action 2 Teaching Research Course: ARC 420 Research project on, Sustainable Cities Past and Present – Lessons from Pre-Colonial Urban Settlements in Africa.