ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the genesis and development of Zambia s urban management from company rule which commenced in the 1890s, through to 2000. It critically reviews the policies, legal enactments and institutional structures, related to urban land policy and urban management. The chapter discusses tensions between the customary concept of land tenure and colonial land tenure, and differences in tenure granted to indigenous African and European communities. An interpretive methodology has been applied to the relationships between values, ideologies and urban management policies in Zambia, combined with an institutional approach allowing the study of local government structure, a medium for the implementation of such policies. Following the Eccles Commission, African housing was combined with the Department of Local Government, and the new Department of Local Government and African Housing was transferred from the Chief Secretary's office in November 1947, headed by a commissioner.
