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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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2023
JOVIS
Schlagworte:
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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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISBN:3868597808
386859776X
9783868597769
9783868597806
DOI:10.1515/9783868597806