Kuwadzana is a residential
suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separate ...
in
Harare
Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...
,
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
. It was formerly known as Parkridge Fontainebleau.
It lies on the city's western border, just south of the main Harare-Bulawayo road.
In the 1980s, Kuwadzana was selected for
slum upgrading
Slum upgrading is an integrated approach that aims to turn around downward trends in an area. These downward trends can be legal (land tenure), physical (infrastructure), social (crime or education, for example) or economic." The main objective of ...
on the
site and services
Site and services is an approach to bringing shelter within the economic reach of the poor.
History
Recognizing that the vast majority of low income families in the world build their own shelter, which lacks basic hygiene, access and electricity, ...
model.
As of 2012, the population was 26,926.
References
Suburbs of Harare
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