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

Infrastructures of Freedom betrachtet die Auswirkungen einer unzureichenden öffentlichen Beleuchtung informeller Siedlungen in Kapstadt. Im demokratischen Südafrika, wo die Bereitstellung von Infrastrukturen immer noch tief verwurzelte Vorstellungen von Bürger*innenschaft widerspiegelt, stehen die i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Briers, Stephen, 1965- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Berlin : JOVIS Verlag GmbH, [2023]
Subjects:	City planning > Economic aspects > South Africa. Municipal lighting > Social aspects > South Africa. Cities and towns > South Africa. Apartheid. Dunkelheit. Feldforschung. Kapstadt. Khayelitsha. Lichtinfrastruktur. Solarlicht. Staatsbürgerschaft. Südafrika. informelle Siedlung. post-Apartheid. urbane Segregation. öffentliches Licht. Villes > Afrique du Sud. ARCHITECTURE / General. Cape Town. South Africa. action research. bottom-up. citizenship. darkness. light infrastructure. post-Apartheid urban planning. public light. southern urbanism. township. urban segregation. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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