{"id":258,"date":"2013-03-06T07:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T07:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/91.121.6.49\/~esadstg\/playurban\/?p=258"},"modified":"2024-08-28T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:34:48","slug":"people-as-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.le-hub.hear.fr\/playurban\/2013\/03\/people-as-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"People as infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/91.121.6.49\/~esadstg\/playurban\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/pagesarrachees_20839_PagArrMALIQ1w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-259\" src=\"http:\/\/91.121.6.49\/~esadstg\/playurban\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/pagesarrachees_20839_PagArrMALIQ1w-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"_pagesarrachees_20839_PagArrMALIQ1w\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.le-hub.hear.fr\/playurban\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/pagesarrachees_20839_PagArrMALIQ1w-218x300.jpg 218w, http:\/\/www.le-hub.hear.fr\/playurban\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/pagesarrachees_20839_PagArrMALIQ1w-744x1024.jpg 744w, http:\/\/www.le-hub.hear.fr\/playurban\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/pagesarrachees_20839_PagArrMALIQ1w-299x411.jpg 299w, http:\/\/www.le-hub.hear.fr\/playurban\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/pagesarrachees_20839_PagArrMALIQ1w.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>Simone\u2019s approach of cities is related to inhabitants and not primarily to it\u2019s architecture, which is seen as a surface, resulting from the interactions of people.<br \/>\nSimone pense la ville \u00e0 partir de ses habitants et non \u00e0 partir de ses infrastructures b\u00e2ties ou de son architecture, qu\u2019il nomme en tant que surface, r\u00e9sultante des interactions des habitants.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Such a conjunction of heterogeneous activities, modes of production, and institutional forms constitutes highly mobile and provisional possibilities of how people live and make things, how they use the urban environment and collaborate with one another. The specific operations and scopes of these conjunctions are constantly negotiated and depend on the particular histories, understandings, networks, styles, and inclinations of the actors involved. Highly specialized needs arise, requiring the application of specialized skills and sensitivities that can adapt to the unpredictable range of scenarios these needs bring to life. Regularities thus ensue from a process of incessant convertibility &#8211; turning commodities, found objects, resources, and bodies into uses previously unimaginable or constrained. Producer &#8211; residents become more adept at operating within these conjunctions as the deploy a greater diversity of abilities and efforts. Again, it is important to emphasize that these conjunctions become a coherent platform for social transaction and livelihood. This process of conjunction, which is capable of generating social compositions across a range of singular capacities and needs (both enacted and virtual) and which attempts to derive maximal outcomes from a minimal set of elements, is what I call people as infrastructure.\u00a0<\/i><br \/>\nA.S,\u00a0<i>People as infrastructure<\/i>, in\u00a0<i>Johannesburg, the elusive city<\/i>, Wits University Press, 2009, p.71.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Nuttal, <i>Literary city<\/i>, p200 : \u00ab\u00a0AbdouMaliq Simone, in this volume, uses the term of\u00a0<em>infrastructure<\/em> to refer to people in the city, to the \u00ab\u00a0ability of residents to engage complex combinations of objects, spaces, people, and practices\u00a0\u00bb, to form \u00ab\u00a0conjunctions\u00a0\u00bb which \u00ab\u00a0become an infrastructure &#8211; a platform providing for and reproducing life in the city.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone\u2019s approach of cities is related to inhabitants and not primarily to it\u2019s architecture, which is seen as a surface, resulting from the interactions of people. 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