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Incremental Infrastructures: material improvisation and social…
Incremental Infrastructures: material improvisation and social collaboration across post-colonial Accra (Silver 2014)
Introduction
The incremental nature of infrastructure construction and extension- focus on marginalised populations and free-circuits of energy to low-cost, self-built housing systems
Understood as in-the-making, undergoing constant adjustment and intervention and in a permanent state of flux
Critique of urban theory to engage with poor urban spaces of the global south, ways urban dwellers adjust circulations of energy and reshape housing conditions
In slums, poor urban dwellers themselves address socio-economic injustices in the city and compose new infrastructural conditions
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