Title & Author:

The history & conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town / edited by Abdul Sheriff.

Publication:

London : The Department of Archives, Museums & Antiquities in association with James Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1995.

Description:

xiii, 151 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cm.

Series:

Eastern African studies

Notes:
"Part I of the Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History & Culture of Zanzibar, Zanzibar 14-16 December 1992"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146) and index.
An outline history of Zanzibar Stone Town / Abdul Sheriff -- The early history of the 'Other Side' of Zanzibar town / Garth Andrew Myers -- Mosques, merchants, and landowners in Zanzibar Stone Town / Abdul Sheriff -- The burial of the Elite in nineteenth-century Zanzibar Stone Town / Amina Ameir Issa -- The social fallout of individual death: graves and cemeteries in Zanzibar / Jean-Claude Penrad -- The old dispensary: an apogee of Zanzibari architecture / Steve Battle -- Zanzibar town planning problems 1890-1939 / Solane Andriananjanirana-Ruphin -- Will Zanzibar Stone Town survive? / Erich F. Meffert -- Zanzibar Stone Town: Fossil or Foetus? / Saad Saleh Yahya -- The revitalisation of Zanzibar Stone Town / Archie Walls -- The historic cities support programme of the Aga Khan Trust for culture and its activities in the Stone Town / Emin Mahir Balcioglu -- The Zanzibar Stone Town planning project / Francesco Siravo.

Summary:

"Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its most acute forms. Should it be fossilised 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 civilisation 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 liberalisation."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0821411195
9780821411193
0821411209 (pbk.)
9780821411209 (pbk.)
0852557213
9780852557211
0852557205
9780852557204

Subject:

Urban renewal Tanzania Zanzibar (Zanzibar) Congresses.
Architecture Tanzania Zanzibar (Zanzibar) Congresses.
Stone buildings Conservation and restoration Tanzania Zanzibar.
Cities and towns Conservation and restoration Tanzania Zanzibar.
Constructions en pierre Conservation et restauration Tanzanie Zanzibar.
Villes Conservation et restauration Tanzanie Zanzibar.
Architecture
Buildings
Urban renewal
Stone Town.
Conservatie.
Cities and towns Tanzania Zanzibar
Stone Town (Zanzibar, Zanzibar) History Congresses.
Stone Town (Zanzibar, Zanzibar) Buildings, structures, etc. Congresses.
Stone Town (Zanzibar, Zanzibar) Congresses Buildings, structures, etc.
Tanzania Zanzibar Stone Town
Tanzania Zanzibar (Zanzibar)
Tanzania History

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings
History

Added entries:

Sheriff, Abdul, editor.
International Conference on the History and Culture of Zanzibar (1992 : Zanzibar, Zanzibar)
Eastern African studies (London, England)

History and conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316499
Call No.: 316499
Copy: 1
Status: External loan