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

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 fa...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2023
JOVIS
Subjects:
action research
Apartheid
Architecture
ARCHITECTURE / General
ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice
ARCHITECTURE / Vernacular
bottom-up
Cape Town
citizenship
darkness
Dunkelheit
Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
Feldforschung
informelle Siedlung
Kapstadt
Khayelitsha
Khayelitsha light infrastructure
Lichtinfrastruktur
light infrastructure
post-Apartheid
post-Apartheid urban planning
public light
Regional and area planning
Solarlicht
South Africa
southern urbanism
Staatsbürgerschaft
Südafrika
The Arts
township
township action research
urban segregation
urbane Segregation
öffentliches Licht
public light
Cape Town
Lichtinfrastruktur
informelle Siedlung
Feldforschung
Südafrika
southern urbanism
Khayelitsha
bottom-up
Staatsbürgerschaft
light infrastructure
urbane Segregation
darkness
urban segregation
citizenship
Kapstadt
Apartheid
Solarlicht
post-Apartheid
South Africa
action research
Dunkelheit
post-Apartheid urban planning
öffentliches Licht
township
ISBN:3868597808, 386859776X, 9783868597769, 9783868597806
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents --
  • Chapter 2: Cape Town’s Segregated Lightscape --
  • Chapter 3: Endeavours of Studying Khayelitsha’s Lighting --
  • Chapter 4: Life in the Shadows of Area Lighting --
  • Epilogue --
  • Foreword --
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgements --
  • Chapter 6: Freeing the Night, Co-producing Light --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Chapter 1: Reading through Light and Beyond --
  • Chapter 5: Trapped by Darkness --
  • Chapter 7: Infrastructures of Freedom: Breaking Boundaries with Light --
  • Introduction --