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Title:Colonial Housing Policy and the 'African Towns' of the Copperbelt: The Beginnings of Self-Help
Author:Tipple, A. Graham
Year:1981
Periodical:African Urban Studies
Issue:11
Period:Fall
Pages:65-85
Language:English
Geographic terms:Zambia
Great Britain
Subjects:colonialism
housing policy
urban history
History and Exploration
Urbanization and Migration
Abstract:This paper follows the development of housing policies relating to Africans (and, after independence, low-income households) in the urban areas of the Copperbelt with special reference to the largest mining town Kitwe. The innovative importance of the 'African Towns' established outside the European towns during the 1940s is discussed especially in providing owner-occupied housing in an otherwise wholly employment-tied housing market. The characteristics of 'African Towns' and their inhabitants are discribed briefly with reference to Chibuluma, near Kitwe. Fig., map, notes, ref., tab.
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