From self-help housing to sustainable settlement : capitalist development and urban planning in Lusaka, Zambia

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From self-help housing to sustainable settlement : capitalist development and urban planning in Lusaka, Zambia

John Tait

(The making of modern Africa)

Avebury, 1997

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Bibliography: p. 357-377

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Description

The aim of this book is both theoretical and practical, with planning issues taking an intermediary role. It examines both capital development and urban development in Lusaka in terms of housing projects.

Table of Contents

  • The self-help housing debate
  • housing, subsistence and simple commodity production in theories of dependent urban reproduction
  • Third World uneven territorial formation and incomplete transition to capitalism
  • reconceiving urbanization, self-help housing, and social reproduction in peripheral capitalism
  • exporting planning for self-help housing projects
  • colonialism and its legacy for African urban development
  • African urbanization and proletarianization
  • colonial planning and African urbanization in Lusaka
  • the political and economic determinants of housing provision in post-independence Zambia
  • Kalingalinga - a settlement history, upgrading and consolidation of a former squatter area
  • Kanyama - 30 years of unauthorized development
  • African perspectives in housing and urban development.

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