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

Open Access Published by JOVIS Verlag GmbH 2023

Infrastructures of Freedom

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

Edited by: Stephanie Briers

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868597806

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About this book

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.

With a foreword by Christian Schmid and Sophie Oldfield

Author / Editor information

Stephanie Briers is a South African architect and urban practitioner. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Landscape and Urbanism and the Institute of Science Technology and Policy at ETH Zurich. Her work focuses on using community participation and stakeholder engagement with the utmost creativity to create and sustain resilient urban environments　and ensure maximum inclusivity and diversity in every project.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	4
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Foreword Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	11
Chapter 1: Reading through Light and Beyond Open Access Download PDF	19
Chapter 2: Cape Town’s Segregated Lightscape Open Access Download PDF	39
Chapter 3: Endeavours of Studying Khayelitsha’s Lighting Open Access Download PDF	65
Chapter 4: Life in the Shadows of Area Lighting Open Access Download PDF	103
Chapter 5: Trapped by Darkness Open Access Download PDF	133
Chapter 6: Freeing the Night, Co-producing Light Open Access Download PDF	175
Chapter 7: Infrastructures of Freedom: Breaking Boundaries with Light Open Access Download PDF	211
Epilogue Open Access Download PDF	221
Appendix Open Access Download PDF	225

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: JOVIS Verlag GmbH
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: 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

eBook

Published: May 22, 2023
ISBN: 9783868597806

Paperback

Published: May 22, 2023
ISBN: 9783868597769