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Infrastructures of freedom : public light and everynight life for the urban poor / / Stephanie Briers



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Autore: Briers Stephen <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Infrastructures of freedom : public light and everynight life for the urban poor / / Stephanie Briers Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin : , : JOVIS Verlag GmbH, , 2022
©2023
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 pages)
Disciplina: 307.1216095456
Soggetto topico: City planning - Economic aspects - South Africa
Cities and towns - South Africa
Soggetto non controllato: Apartheid
Cape Town
Khayelitsha
South Africa
action research
bottom-up
citizenship
darkness
light infrastructure
post-Apartheid urban planning
public light
southern urbanism
township
urban segregation
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Reading through Light and Beyond -- Chapter 2: Cape Town’s Segregated Lightscape -- Chapter 3: Endeavours of Studying Khayelitsha’s Lighting -- Chapter 4: Life in the Shadows of Area Lighting -- Chapter 5: Trapped by Darkness -- Chapter 6: Freeing the Night, Co-producing Light -- Chapter 7: Infrastructures of Freedom: Breaking Boundaries with Light -- Epilogue -- Appendix
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Infrastructures of freedom  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-86859-780-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910733292003321
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