First-Class but not for Long: Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Water Bricolage in Accra’s Kiosk Compounds

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Abstract This paper explores the micro-geographies of water access in context a first-class residential neighborhood Accra served by city’s networked infrastructure. We focus our analyses on how is accessed and supplied to six kiosk compounds—privately owned, walled plots land provisionally inhabited urban dwellers living kiosk-like structures with (tacit) knowledge plot-owners. document inhabitants pipe-born water, despite not being directly connected network, through diverse configurations actors, practices, material set ups. Our findings suggest more attention should be paid distribution neighborhoods as this contributes nuanced understandings uneven ways which distributed Accra’s incremental urbanization. To analyze diversity, we combining heuristic heterogenous infrastructure concept bricolage using plot unit analysis.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Urban Forum

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1874-6330', '1015-3802']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-021-09435-7