Population growth distribution and density changes and urbanization in Zimbabwe: a preliminary assessment following the 1982 census.

Aspects of population growth and redistribution [in Zimbabwe] including urbanization are assessed using data from the 1982 and earlier censuses together with preliminary information from cartographic analysis extracted from an on-going research programme. It is concluded that in several respects Zimbabwe typifies sub-Saharan population trends and imbalances and that a number of ingredients for an urban spatial transformation are present. However the presence of sizeable tracts of under-utilized formerly European-owned farmland and of a semi-developed system of urban places including mature colonial towns are seen as significant local modifying characteristics that potentially offer partial solutions to the countrys population problems. (EXCERPT)