… highly urbanized social infrastructure. This infrastructure is capable of facilitating the intersection
of … This essay is framed around the notion of people as infrastructure, which emphasizes …

… highly urbanized social infrastructure. This infrastructure is capable of facilitating the intersection
of … This essay is framed around the notion of people as infrastructure, which emphasizes …

… to extend the notion of infrastructure directly to people’s activities in the city. African cities
are characterized by incessantly flexible, mobile, and provisional intersections of residents that …

… intersections of By contrast, I wish to extend the notion of infrastructure directly to people’s …
African cities are characterized by incessantly flexible, mobile, and provisional intersections …

… Yet we must recognize that the people as infrastructure notion … But the people as infrastructure
concept, in our reading of it, … This is precisely what the people as infrastructure notion …

This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork, conducted between 2011 and 2016, in
unlawfully appropriated buildings, or the ‘dark buildings’, of inner-city Johannesburg in which …

… Johannesburg, though in 2010 Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) estimated that 50,000 to
60,000 people … the City of Johannesburg estimate that as many as 90,000 people may be living …

… In order to understand the distribution of people in Johannesburg, we need to consider (a)
the market differentiation of the urban stock inherited from apartheid (Christopher, 1992); (b) …

… ' street traders in inner city Johannesburg, I argue in this … of state and citizenship intersect in
particular nodes of encounter. … life in the city, the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality has …

… Providing people with a building that adapts and changes with time, through program and
aesthetic. Johannesburg was formed through the discovery of gold and continues to grow and …