Infrastructures of Freedom Public Light and Everynight Life on a Southern City's Margins

• Outros autores: Briers, Stephanie (Editor)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Idioma: inglés
• Publicado: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2023
• Subjects: Architecture: professional practice; Regional & area planning; post-Apartheid urban planning; public light; darkness; Cape Town; South Africa; Khayelitsha light infrastructure; citizenship; urban segregation; township action research; bottom-up; Apartheid; southern urbanism
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Summary

Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision face challenges beyond access to basic services and opportunities. Fear, the feeling of being forgotten, and living in undignified conditions are among the powerful experiences darkness brings about in these neighborhoods. The book not only reveals these experiences of everynight life, but takes a step further: it considers how the co-production of a solar public lighting project within a community improved everynight life and suggests ways for infrastructure to more successfully articulate citizenship.

Descrición Física

1 electronic resource (272 p.)

ISBN

9783868597806
9783868597769

Acceso

Open Access