2022
DOI: 10.21625/essd.v7i2.912
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Connecting cities across infrastructural divides

Abstract: This paper investigates opportunities to connect divided cities by analysing ways in which occupation practices operate alongside, subvert and potentially transform historic, and presently developing urban infrastructure divisions in Tshwane’s eastern urban region. Through a critical theory lens existing and perpetuating conditions of infrastructural segregation are examined in order to understand scenarios through which built environments, as assemblages, maintain conditions of extreme inequality and power. I… Show more

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“…Other examples of important redefinitions can relate to notions of 'informality' beyond conditions of lack, but rather as sets of relations between 'hard' and 'soft' infrastructures, in the physical services that operate through softer human and nonhuman interfaces and networks and the various kinds of opportunities that these can facilitate. 11 Thus, we may ask: is public space a new concept in African contexts? Our answer is no.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Other examples of important redefinitions can relate to notions of 'informality' beyond conditions of lack, but rather as sets of relations between 'hard' and 'soft' infrastructures, in the physical services that operate through softer human and nonhuman interfaces and networks and the various kinds of opportunities that these can facilitate. 11 Thus, we may ask: is public space a new concept in African contexts? Our answer is no.…”
Section: Here Is a Tablementioning
confidence: 99%