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Event - 1988-10-16
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture organised in Zanzibar the eleventh international seminar on the 'Architecture of Housing' and a number of new approaches were defined for the chronic shortage of housing that result as rapid demographic growth occurs. Hazar Imam said; 'The lack and deterioration of human habitation as economies grow, urbanisation accelerates and demographics explode, pose some of the greatest practical and ethical problems that developing countries face.'
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Speech
Closing Remarks by His Highness The Aga Khan for the Zanzibar Housing Seminar 1988-10-16
Posted February 9th, 2022 by librarian-hdIt has been for all of us a very challenging experience to come to an island with such a multiplicity of history and to be able to listen to the problems of building in the developing world and how they are dealt with.
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Speech by His Highness The Aga Khan at the Zanzibar Housing Seminar 1988-10-12
Posted February 9th, 2022 by librarian-hdHOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE
It is many years since I last visited the historic island of Zanzibar, whose name alights all that is romantic in the imagination. It is with eagerness and gratitude that we will enter, even if only for a few days, into the culture and the historic buildings of Tanzania and Zanzibar to learn from them and to equip ourselves for our debate.
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AGA KHAN AWARD SEMINAR FORMULATES NEW APPROACHES TO WORLDWIDE CRISIS IN HOUSING - 1988-10-16
Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritageZanzibar - venue for eleventh international Seminar
Rapid demographic growth and deteriorating economic conditions in rural areas are adding millions more people every year to the already overcrowded cities of the Third World.
A number of new approaches to the chronic shortage of housing that results were formulated at the international Seminar on the Architecture of Housing' that ended in Zanzibar, Tanzania on October 16, 1988.
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