• Figure 7.13. A typical urban block in Zanzibar Stone Town. (a) Plan and four elevations of an urban block in Kajificheni, Zanzibar Stone Town. The block contains a mixture of different building types: Arab courtyard houses, groups of Indian shop front buildings and an L-shaped communal tenement building. (b) An axonometric view of the same Kajijicheni block illustrates an unplanned process of development, where individual structures were built next to each other over time by owners of different races, religions, and cultures. (Source: Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Zanzibar: A Plan for the Historic Stone Town. Geneva: Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 1996, p. 30–31.)

Plan and four elevations of an urban block in Kajificheni, Zanzibar Stone Town, with an axonometric view of the same Kajijicheni block illustrating an unplanned process of development

From Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies: Notes on the Social Production of Cities by Mahbub Rashid

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