The nocturnal city. (2018)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The nocturnal city. (2018)
- Main Title:
- The nocturnal city
- Further Information:
- Note: Robert Shaw.
- Authors:
- Shaw, Robert, 1986-
- Contents:
- Introduction 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 urbanIntroduction 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 Index … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 307.76
Nightlife
Night -- Social aspects
City and town life
Cities and towns - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781317197225
9781317197232
9781317197218
9781315560090 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781138676404
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