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OverviewNight is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformations during the era of globalization. As the economic activity of the ‘daytime’ city has advanced into the night, other uses of the night as a time for play, for sleep or for escaping oppression have come increasingly under threat. This book looks at the relationship between night and society in contemporary cities. It identifies that while theories of ‘planetary urbanization’ have traced the spatial spread of urban forms, the temporal expansion of urban capitalism has been less well mapped. It argues that, as a key part of planetary being, understanding what goes on at night in cities can add nuance to debates on planetary urbanization. A series of practices and spaces that we encounter in the night-time city are explored. These include: the maintenance and repair of infrastructure; the aesthetics of the urban night; nightlife and the night-time economy; the home at night; and the ecologies of the urban night. Taking these forward the book will ask whether the night can reveal some of the boundaries to what we call ‘the urban’ in a world of cities, and will call for a revitalized and enhanced ‘nightology’ to study these limits. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert ShawPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.250kg ISBN: 9780367894818ISBN 10: 0367894815 Pages: 126 Publication Date: 31 March 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Changing spaces, changing times: urban futures How is the world urban? Contemporary urban theory Urban machines: environment, society and the self Night and the limits of the city Chapter 2 Fragmenting frontier: night, time and the city Night in pre-industrial societies Electrification Production at night Night as frontier People who go bump in the night: the nocturnals Fragmentation and affects of incessancy on the edge of the city Chapter 3 Nocturnal ecologies and infrastructures Artificial lighting as a condition of nocturnal possibility Light pollution, carbon use and the ecological impacts of the night-time city Changes to urban lighting and global challenges Beyond lighting: infrastructural frontiers at night Living with darkness: infrastructure and the possibilities of urban expansion Chapter 4 Nightlife and night-time economy Booze, bingeing and beer: the night-time economy in the UK Creating nightlife: the emergence of the British night-time economy Being nocturnal: night-time subjectivities Global nocturnal leisure Contact zones of nightlife Chapter 5 Aesthetics of the night-time city Illuminations and conviviality: developing a night-time aesthetics Walking, exploration, graffiti: a counter-aesthetics of the night? Cities at night and place marketing The aesthetics of the night and what it means to be urban Chapter 6 The domestic night Shaping the domestic night: from comfort to control Home, subjectivity and night Home: at the edge of urban and beyond Chapter 7 Towards nightology and the temporal limits to urbanism Planetary urbanization: many cities, many planets Three narratives of the urban–world–night relationship Towards nightology IndexReviews"""Shaw’s book explores the way humans interface with the darkness that night brings while making the argument that the night should be, in and of itself, an object of research. The book takes the reader on a journey over time and space through the urban night. Throughout the book issues of race, gender, and sexuality are addressed. While the author notes there are “some gaps”, this book provides a fairly comprehensive survey of geographical and social theories and research about the human experience at night. Further chapters in the book introduce such concepts as light pollution, nocturnal ecologies, the night-time economy, and the domestic night. The range of topics covered outlines just how much the night has an effect on both humans and ecological systems within the urban environment. -Robert Shaw, The Nocturnal City (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 126, ISBN: 9781138676404 ‘This book challenges any simple definitions of the urban night, and takes the reader on an intellectual journey around the boundaries of what is much more than cities in the hours of darkness [..] It will help shape future research on the sustainable nocturnal city, a field which not only requires much further scholarly engagement, but would especially benefit from interdisciplinary work, across transport and mobility, human-animal relations, migration studies, to name but a few. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the night as experienced in public, in collective urban spaces, is set aside at one point, and a chapter is dedicated to the domestic night. [..] I feel it makes a strong case for further engagement with the under-researched questions of how we continue to inhabit the urban once we close our front doors, and how these domestic modes of being in the city at night are urban in very different ways.’ – Dr Anna Plyushteva, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium" Shaw's book explores the way humans interface with the darkness that night brings while making the argument that the night should be, in and of itself, an object of research. The book takes the reader on a journey over time and space through the urban night. Throughout the book issues of race, gender, and sexuality are addressed. While the author notes there are some gaps , this book provides a fairly comprehensive survey of geographical and social theories and research about the human experience at night. Further chapters in the book introduce such concepts as light pollution, nocturnal ecologies, the night-time economy, and the domestic night. The range of topics covered outlines just how much the night has an effect on both humans and ecological systems within the urban environment. -Robert Shaw, The Nocturnal City (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 126, ISBN: 9781138676404 Author InformationRobert Shaw is a lecturer in geography at Newcastle University, UK. He received his PhD from Durham University in 2012, and he subsequently worked at Durham until 2015, before joining Newcastle. With his research interests in the urban night, he has explored the production of night-time city life in the UK, changing street-lighting technologies and most recently the Nuit Debout protest movement in Paris. His work has also been published in several academic journals. His personal webpage is www.rob-shaw.net, and he can be found on Twitter as @WhatIsRobShaw. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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