Research Catalog

Title

Planning urban economies in Southern and Eastern Africa / edited by K.H. Wekwete, C.O. Rambanapasi.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Avebury, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wekwete, K.
• Rambanapasi, C. O.
• Association of Rural & Urban Planners in Southern & Eastern Africa.
• Planning Urban Economies in Southern and Eastern Africa (1990 : Harare, Zimbabwe)

Description

xiv, 350 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

An assessment of the role, nature and significance of urbanization in seven countries in Southern and Eastern Africa. Various problems, such as rapid urbanization, the creation of employment and the financing of development, are detailed, as are the roles of private and public sector agencies.

Subject

• 1975-1994
• Urbanization > Africa, Southern
• Urbanization > Africa, Eastern
• Urban economics
• City planning
• City planning
• Economic history
• Urban economics
• Urbanization
• Kongress
• Stadtentwicklung
• Stedelijke ontwikkeling
• Stadsplanning
• Africa, Southern > Economic conditions > 1975-1994
• Africa, Eastern > Economic conditions
• Africa, Southern
• Africa, East
• Africa, Southern
• Africa, East
• Eastern Africa
• Southern Africa
• Ostafrika
• Südafrika

Genre/Form

Harare (1990)

Note

• Includes some of the papers presented at the 1990 RUPSEA network workshop in Harare.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-350).

Contents

• Urbanization, urban development in Southern and Eastern Africa : an overview / Kadmiel H Wekwete (22 p.). -- Urbanisation, urban development and management in Zimbabwe / Kadmiel H Wekwete (24 p.). -- Urbanization, urban development planning and management in Zambia : an overview / E. Shamilupa Kalapula (22 p.). -- Urban development and urbanisation in a small land locked economy : the case of Swaziland / A Rwomire (22 o,). -- Urban development and management in Namibia : a challenge for sustainable urban development in a newly independent state / M Majengua (12 p.).
• Urban development planning in Botswana / E Serathi (26 p.). -- The dynamics of urbanization and urban development policy in Kenya / M Kiamba (18 p.). -- Urban local government : a case study of Bulawayo City with special reference to finance and delivery of services / Naison D Mutizwa-Mangiza (22 p.). -- Chitungwiza : the case study of a dormitory town in Zimbabwe / C.O Rambanapasi (34 p.). -- The planning and financing of Tanzania's new capital city, Dodoma / A Mosha (18 p.). -- The delivery of urban services in Malawi : the case of housing / Ben M Kaluwa (26 p.). -- Financing urban development in Southern and Eastern Africa / Kadmiel H Wekwete (14 p.). -- The institutional basis of planning urban economies in Southern and Eastern Africa / C.O Rambanapasi (40 p.). -- Towards a sustainable urban development in Southern and Eastern Africa / Kadmiel H Wekwete (10 p.).

ISBN

• 1856285634
• 9781856285636

OCLC

• ocm31881672
• 31881672
• SCSB-2067077

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library