This significant text examines the factors, both internal and external to, the World Bank that have influenced its urban development agenda. It explores how the bank become involved in urban lending, how it fashioned its ideas into projects and programmes and how it translated these into specific policies. It expertly uses the case of Zimbabwe to illustrate the complex relationships between the banks urban division and the various national and sub-national actors in framing an appropriate urban policy.
Arguing that the establishment of the bank's urban division and shifts in its urban...