Social infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genus

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dc.contributor.advisorFellingham, Kevinen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorCoetzer, Nicholas,Low, Iainen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorWindapo, Bayonle Olanrewajuen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-07T14:44:46Z
dc.date.available2016-04-07T14:44:46Z
dc.date.issued2015en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis research stems from reports of the interaction between the growing informal communities such as Makoko, the coastal plains of the degenerating Lagos contexts and their limited access to central infrastructure. The effects of climate change on the low-lying coastal plains further exacerbate the degeneration experienced in these contexts. Therefore this research examines how people live independently of central infrastructure in informal contexts such as Makoko and whether this autonomy can be embedded into interventions that are integrated within the socio-economic networks of these contexts in a bid to shift from defective central infrastructures to social infrastructures that transform the blighted Lagos contexts in a manner that builds resilience at a local level. By using Makoko as a site for exploration and communicating with the locals of the context, Lagos professionals and non-governmental organizations, it emerged that there is currently an unhealthy relationship between the state, its local governments and its informal communities such as Makoko, in that the city of Lagos is managed principally from the office of the governor. This central management results in infrastructures that are implemented without critical acknowledgement of the problems faced by individuals who live in the many informal contexts of Lagos thereby resulting in little or no observable transformation in its (Lagos) degenerating contexts. It was also observed that Makoko has a unique urbanity of soft infrastructures that lend themselves to different scales of functions in the context and diverge from the typical hard infrastructures employed by the Lagos state government. The observations and findings point to the fact that the relationship between the state and its people must be strengthened for delivered infrastructures to be of any consequence in realizing any positive social change and transform Lagos and settlements like Makoko from their states of human and environmental degeneration by acknowledging that these contexts have unique problems and urbanisms that must be fused into any interventions within their precincts in a sustainable, ecological and economical way. This move will go a long way in transforming and legitimizing Lagos's degenerating contexts as important facets of the city.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationWindapo, B. O. (2015). <i>Social infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genus</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18711en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationWindapo, Bayonle Olanrewaju. <i>"Social infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genus."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18711en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWindapo, B. 2015. Social infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genus. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Windapo, Bayonle Olanrewaju AB - This research stems from reports of the interaction between the growing informal communities such as Makoko, the coastal plains of the degenerating Lagos contexts and their limited access to central infrastructure. The effects of climate change on the low-lying coastal plains further exacerbate the degeneration experienced in these contexts. Therefore this research examines how people live independently of central infrastructure in informal contexts such as Makoko and whether this autonomy can be embedded into interventions that are integrated within the socio-economic networks of these contexts in a bid to shift from defective central infrastructures to social infrastructures that transform the blighted Lagos contexts in a manner that builds resilience at a local level. By using Makoko as a site for exploration and communicating with the locals of the context, Lagos professionals and non-governmental organizations, it emerged that there is currently an unhealthy relationship between the state, its local governments and its informal communities such as Makoko, in that the city of Lagos is managed principally from the office of the governor. This central management results in infrastructures that are implemented without critical acknowledgement of the problems faced by individuals who live in the many informal contexts of Lagos thereby resulting in little or no observable transformation in its (Lagos) degenerating contexts. It was also observed that Makoko has a unique urbanity of soft infrastructures that lend themselves to different scales of functions in the context and diverge from the typical hard infrastructures employed by the Lagos state government. The observations and findings point to the fact that the relationship between the state and its people must be strengthened for delivered infrastructures to be of any consequence in realizing any positive social change and transform Lagos and settlements like Makoko from their states of human and environmental degeneration by acknowledging that these contexts have unique problems and urbanisms that must be fused into any interventions within their precincts in a sustainable, ecological and economical way. This move will go a long way in transforming and legitimizing Lagos's degenerating contexts as important facets of the city. DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Social infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genus TI - Social infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genus UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18711 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/18711
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationWindapo BO. Social infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genus. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2015 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18711en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Architecture, Planning and Geomaticsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherArchitecture and Planningen_ZA
dc.subject.otherSocial Infrastructureen_ZA
dc.titleSocial infrastructures: a shift to decentralized infrastructure as a means of rejuvenating blighted Lagosian contexts and places of similar genusen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMArch (Prof)en_ZA
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