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

• Tác giả: Stephanie Briers
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3868597769
• ISBN-13: 978-3868597806
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2023
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (272 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 376015
• Chủ đề: 1. darkness; 2. post-Apartheid urban planning; 3. public light; 4. Architecture: professional practice; 5. Regional & area planning

Tóm tắt

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.