Urban Governance Outreach Program: Material Edited from a Conference on Urban Governance and Management Programme in Zimbabwe (original) (raw)

1997

Abstract

Presented in the next sections are papers on the proceedings of a workshop, which successfully managed to highlight current, future issues and challenges concerning urban governance in Zimbabwe. Urban Development, Growth and Governance Issues: Historically, urban local governments in Zimbabwe tended to have wide ranging capacity to provide a broad range of services to their populations. Delivery of these services and maintenance of the related infrastructure was efficient. This was mainly because of the relatively slow rate of urbanization. Urban settlement growth was kept under check through rigorous and tight development control and control of rural-urban migration. The changes brought about by national independence created unprecedented service, delivery and management and governance challenges. Virtually all-Zimbabwean urban settlements are growing and expanding at an unprecedented rate which raises serious questions of sustainability, environment, infrastructure, poverty and go...

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