Infrastructural citizenship: The everyday citizenships of adapting and/or destroying public infrastructure in Cape Town, South Africa

C Lemanski - Transactions of the Institute of British …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper develops infrastructural citizenship as an analytical framework that bridges
geography's sub‐disciplinary silos. While urban geography promotes infrastructure as a …

What the experiences of South Africa's mass housing programme teach us about the contribution of civil society to policy and programme reform

W Fieuw, D Mitlin - Environment and Urbanization, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Experiences of apartheid in South Africa have resulted in the association of shelter with
citizenship, adding significance to the concept of “home”. This paper reviews experiences …

A framework for community participation in post-disaster housing reconstruction projects: A case of Afghanistan

Z Sadiqi, B Trigunarsyah, V Coffey - International Journal of Project …, 2017 - Elsevier
The study aims to develop a framework for community participation that can inform a
participatory approach more effectively when planning and develo** post-disaster …

Augmented informality: South Africa's backyard dwellings as a by-product of formal housing policies

C Lemanski - Habitat international, 2009 - Elsevier
Insufficient and inadequate housing for the urban poor has a long history in South Africa, as
in other African cities. Nearly one-fifth of urban households in South Africa reside in an …

Building local governance: Participation and elite capture in slum‐upgrading in Kenya

A Rigon - Development and change, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Community and democratic participation are still an essential component of current
mainstream development interventions. However, elite capture seriously undermines the …

Why do low-income urban dwellers reject energy technologies? Exploring the socio-cultural acceptance of solar adoption in Mumbai and Cape Town

AN Haque, C Lemanski, J De Groot - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
In the global context of reducing carbon emissions and shifting towards sustainable modes
of urban infrastructure, strategies that provide decentralized access to renewable energy …

Moving up the ladder or stuck on the bottom rung? Homeownership as a solution to poverty in urban South Africa

C Lemanski - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In the global South, policies providing property titles to low‐income households are
increasingly implemented as a solution to poverty. Integrating poor households into the …

Hybrid gentrification in South Africa: Theorising across southern and northern cities

C Lemanski - Urban Studies, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper reveals how urban theories traditionally rooted in northern cities and academies
are challenged and redeveloped by southern perspectives. Critiques of urban theory as …

Epistemic communities in urban self-organization: A systematic review and assessment

E de Bruijn, L Gerrits - Journal of Planning Literature, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The application of the concept of self-organization has grown over time in the field of urban
planning, but with various interpretations. This article presents a systematic review that aims …

Infrastructural citizenship: spaces of living in Cape Town, South Africa

C Lemanski - The Routledge handbook on spaces of urban …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter considers the notion of infrastructural citizenship as a conceptual lens through
which to acknowledge the interconnected relationship between infrastructure and …