Informal use as public programming
#Re-appropriating - challenging ‘upgrading’
Various townships in South Africa.
Spaza Shop
The spaza shop is an informal typology characterised by the informal use of typically self-built or self-appropriated structures to fit the purposes of selling everyday grocery items. The spaza shop tends to be open 24 hours of the day or for most of the hours of the day also becomes a source of light and a space of social occupation at night, consequently becoming a space of safety where dark and empty areas pose danger.
Image by: Kathryn Morrical
The spaza shop is an informal typology characterised by the informal use of typically self-built or self-appropriated structures to fit the purposes of selling everyday grocery items. The spaza shop tends to be open 24 hours of the day or for most of the hours of the day also becomes a source of light and a space of social occupation at night, consequently becoming a space of safety where dark and empty areas pose danger.
Image by: Kathryn Morrical
Roseland/Michigan TIF district
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