Such lower-income settlements, called kampung in the manner of their rural counterparts, typically consist of a cluster of small brick houses that procure their own water and often tap electricity illegally from the power supply of the national electric company.
Some held lights and microphones, others drew on their professional pasts to tap electricity and construct fresh tracks for dolly shots.
But they're also mixed with more poignant moments to reflect how much we take for granted in modern society - running water from a tap, electricity at the flick of a switch, throwing away food past its use-by date.
Old Sile had an irrational fear of being electrocuted and so he'd never tapped electricity into his shack, as was usually done on Zongo Street.
He listed the planned city's amenities: clean water flowing from the tap, constant electricity from a private grid, sewage facilities.
The combination of citizen-design ideas and immense computational power available anywhere -- just like having water from the tap or electricity from the plug -- will lead to a cognitive design-computing environment, in which citizens are much more active and proactive in designing and improving their cities.
Its gas emissions were trapped and tapped for electricity generation.
Mr. Preston said the tribes believed that the geothermal energy, which would be tapped for electricity, had a spiritual origin and should not be tampered with.
Residents of Tiger Bay and Holmes Street Wharf, an adjacent settlement, have made the decades-old communities habitable by tapping into electricity and water supplies, creating makeshift "shower-rooms" and furnishing interiors with salvaged sofas, TVs and appliances.
The case -- Regina v. Anne Elizabeth Alice Laurence, in literal terms, the queen taking her own daughter to court -- stood out on a docket otherwise occupied with cases of drunk driving, theft, burglary, receiving stolen goods, forgery and illegally tapping into electricity lines.
"Food is decreasing, there is no tap water, and electricity comes and goes," he added.
