Urban provision cannot be assumed to precede urban use. In Accra New Town, geolocated interviews, photographs and spatial analysis show residents fashioning partial infrastructures in response to gaps in formal pedestrian provision, from covered drains and shade to traffic-calming and lighting. The research does not romanticise improvisation as an adequate substitute for public investment. Its specific advance is to make an otherwise uncatalogued infrastructural layer observable and to ask how those modifications relate to safety, accessibility and enjoyment separately. Their association is more persuasive for safety than for the other outcomes, a distinction essential to its interpretative validity. A crossing made physically possible can remain unpleasant; a shaded interval can improve comfort without making the journey secure. This places urban anthropology and infrastructural studies beside transport planning, with the pedestrian not merely as the recipient of built form but as someone who sometimes modifies its terms. As an evidential operation, the geolocated account makes agency visible without turning situated adaptations into transferable design standards.
URBANISM MEETS ART