ANTHRO 119P Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Focus Group
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What your household connected into, more than what you have. Unspoken expectation to the user of infrastructure. How governmental investment and user expectation meet. Infrastructure is the permanent physical expression of somebody organising stuff. Have a lot of real world value. A place where almost anything can happen. Symbolic value that people associate with being an urban resident and having access to those linkages. Slum development not necessarily a poor area but a place that not provided with infrastructure no legal title to land city doesn"t make investment. Infrastructure is also an expression to power and authority. Golden gate bridge symbolic*--> social symbolism more that it practical function. Water cover branding on top demonstrating to people who is in charge something belongs to everybody conveys political authority. Maintenance drives people crazy because it takes things out of service. Public private stuff branding by people who are signaling something in the community.
