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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. |