The history & conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town

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The history & conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town

edited by Abdul Sheriff

（Eastern African studies）

Department of Archives, Museums & Antiquities in association with J. Currey, 1995

  • : pbk
  • : U.S
  • : U.S

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Bibliography: p143-146

Includes index

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: U.S ISBN 9780821411193

Description

Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its most acute forms. Should it be fossilized for the tourists? Or should it grow for the benefit of the inhabitants? Can ways be found to accommodate conflicting social and economic pressures? For its size, Zanzibar, like Venice, occupies a remarkably large romantic space in world imagination. Swahili civilization on these spice islands goes back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. Up until the nineteenth century it was the capital of a trading empire which spread Kiswahili and Islam over a large part of eastern and central African and the Indian Ocean. Zanzibar then suffered the loss of its empire to the Germans and the British. In the last thirty years it has passed through its second period of crisis. After the Revolution of 1964 the new rural owners did not have the wherewithal to maintain the old stone houses. The Stone Town seemed to be on the verge of extinction. In the 1980s the government reversed its policies and the old town became threatened by rapid redevelopment which disfigures as it builds. The Old Stone Town now stands in danger of being drastically transformed by tourism and trade liberalization.
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: pbk ISBN 9780852557204

Description

Illustrated with photographs, plans and maps, this book examines the issues underlying the conservation of the historic Stone Town of Zanzibar. Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its most acute forms: should it be preserved for the tourists or should it be allowed to grow for the benefit of the inhabitants? Can ways be found to accommodate conflicting social and economic pressures? North America: Ohio U Press; Tanzania: Zanzibar Museums

Table of Contents

  • Introduction and an outline history of the Zanzibar Stone Town, Abdul Sheriff
  • the early history of the "other side", G.A. Myers
  • mosques, merchants and landowners - the burial of the elite, A. Ameir
  • the social fallout of individual death - graves and cemeteries, Jean-Claude Penrad
  • the old dispensary, Steve Battle
  • planning problems 1890-1939, Solange Andriananjanirana-Ruphin
  • will Zanzibar Stone Town survive?, E.F. Meffert
  • the Stone Town - fossil of foetus?, S.S. Yahya
  • revitalization, A. Walls
  • the historic cities support programme, E.M. Balcioglu
  • the Zanzibar Stone Town planning project, F. Siravo.
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ISBN 9780852557211

Description

Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its most acute forms: should it be preserved for the tourists or should it be allowed to grow for the benefit of the inhabitants? Can ways be found to accommodate conflicting social and economic pressures? This book explores these issues.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction and an outline history of the Zanzibar Stone Town, Abdul Sheriff
  • the early history of the "other side", G.A. Myers
  • mosques, merchants and landowners - the burial of the elite, A. Ameir
  • the social fallout of individual death - graves and cemeteries, Jean-Claude Penrad
  • the old dispensary, Steve Battle
  • planning problems 1890-1939, Solange Andriananjanirana-Ruphin
  • will Zanzibar Stone Town survive?, E.F. Meffert
  • the Stone Town - fossil of foetus?, S.S. Yahya
  • revitalization, A. Walls
  • the historic cities support programme, E.M. Balcioglu
  • the Zanzibar Stone Town planning project, F. Siravo.

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