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A posthumanist critique of PRASA’s Metrorail infrastructure and its contribution to perpetuated inequalities of the majority, Hatfield, Pretoria
Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/100439 A posthumanist critique of PRASA’s Metrorail infrastructure and its contribution to perpetuated inequalities of the majority, Hatfield, Pretoria Bridging Boksburg : infrastructure assemblages for community and ecological integration and rehabilitation Devenish, Paul chrisjt388@gmail.com Toffa, Tariq Thompson, Christopher UCTD Apartheid Hard and soft infrastructure Intra-action Inequality Hatfield Metrorail Rissik Station Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2023. This research is contextualised in the post-apartheid urban environment railway infrastructure of PRASA’s Metrorail, which has inherited many stations with built forms, structures and operations informed by the apartheid era’s spatial planning policies, and practices. Apartheid adapted and applied modernist principles to spatial planning, which created built environments of mono-functionality, rationality, operational efficiency, and racial segregation. This resulted in spaces of austerity which currently limits social justice, economic efficiency, and environmental sustainability. PRASA’s Metrorail is currently experiencing infrastructure failure, vandalism, and crime, which has prompted the implementation of station revitalisation strategies as part of their modernisation programme. The modernisation programme aims to also reflect their values of ‘safety’, ‘fairness and integrity’, ‘teamwork’, ‘service excellence’, ‘communication’, and ‘performance driven’. This research investigates the recently revitalised Rissik Station as a case study for similar passenger railway station typologies, to uncover inherited apartheid rational non-human systems that may persist and perpetuate inequity for its users, through a posthuman critique. Applying the posthumanist critique to Rissik Station helps reveal nuanced interactions between the entangled human and non-human actors (hard and soft infrastructures) to understand and make explicit what is implicit about the station that others the human component. Architecture MArch (Prof) Unrestricted Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology SDG-10: Reduces inequalities SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities 2025-02-03T16:25:42Z 2025-02-03T16:25:42Z 2025-04 2023-07 Mini Dissertation * A2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/100439 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.27959739 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Apartheid Hard and soft infrastructure Intra-action Inequality Hatfield Metrorail Rissik Station A posthumanist critique of PRASA’s Metrorail infrastructure and its contribution to perpetuated inequalities of the majority, Hatfield, Pretoria |
| title | A posthumanist critique of PRASA’s Metrorail infrastructure and its contribution to perpetuated inequalities of the majority, Hatfield, Pretoria |
| title_full | A posthumanist critique of PRASA’s Metrorail infrastructure and its contribution to perpetuated inequalities of the majority, Hatfield, Pretoria |
| title_fullStr | A posthumanist critique of PRASA’s Metrorail infrastructure and its contribution to perpetuated inequalities of the majority, Hatfield, Pretoria |
| title_full_unstemmed | A posthumanist critique of PRASA’s Metrorail infrastructure and its contribution to perpetuated inequalities of the majority, Hatfield, Pretoria |
| title_short | A posthumanist critique of PRASA’s Metrorail infrastructure and its contribution to perpetuated inequalities of the majority, Hatfield, Pretoria |
| title_sort | posthumanist critique of prasa s metrorail infrastructure and its contribution to perpetuated inequalities of the majority hatfield pretoria |
| topic | UCTD Apartheid Hard and soft infrastructure Intra-action Inequality Hatfield Metrorail Rissik Station |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/100439 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.27959739 |