INFRASTRUCTURES OF FREEDOM, public light and overnight life on a southern city's margins

239pp., colour illus., maps, paperback, Berlin, 2023

Foreword by Christian Schmid and Sophie Oldfield.

Stephanie Briers on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town, how the co-production of a solar public lighting project within a community in Khayelitsha improved night life, and how infrastructure can more successfully articulate citizenship.

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.