스톤타운에 나타난 지중해적 도시 구성원리의 사례 연구

Abstract

This study explores how the spatial principles of Mediterranean urbanism have been sensorially appropriated, reconstructed, and rearticulated in the coastal African city of Stone Town, Zanzibar. Traditionally, Mediterranean cities have been characterized by centrality, visual hierarchy, rhythmic street networks, and layered historical memories. Drawing from the theoretical framework of micro-ecologies of exchange (Horden & Purcell, 2000), spatial production (Lefebvre, 1991), and everyday urban practices (de Certeau, 1984), this paper analyzes how such spatial principles are reconfigured in non-European maritime contexts. Focusing on Stone Town—a city shaped by Swahili, Arab, Indian, and European influences—the research traces how sensory urbanism emerges through spatial practices such as walking, pausing, watching, and inhabiting. Fieldwork, photographs, and spatial observation were conducted to document the interplay of light and shadow in narrow alleys, the sensorial zoning of color and texture, and the lived use of baraza (street side benches) as platforms for community engagement. The city is examined not only through its architectural forms but also through its atmospheric elements, memory-laden spaces, and affective geographies. Rather than viewing Stone Town as a derivative or hybrid urban form, this study argues that it actively produces a unique urban sensibility—one that is grounded in the bodily and affective dimensions of place. The city becomes legible through the rhythms of movement, the negotiation of sensory thresholds, and the recollection of collective memory embedded in its walls and streetscapes. By examining Stone Town through the lens of sensory experience and postcolonial urban practice, this research contributes to the expanding discourse on Mediterranean urbanism beyond its traditional geographical scope. It reveals how spatial principles travel, mutate, and become embodied in new cultural terrains. The study also offers practical implications for heritage preservation, urban design, and intercultural understanding in global coastal cities.