DARK CITY

摘要

We carefully plan our cities by day to work for the people that use them. Each street, square, park and building is designed within a strict planning framework to balance its utility, diversity and aesthetic harmony. Identifiable districts and neighbourhoods emerge, voids between buildings become places for people, and buildings become landmarks or part of the urban grain. Once darkness falls however our cities change and become revealed through multiple layers of light provided by a variety of hands. Publically owned street and landscape lighting vie with private architectural lighting, retail frontages, advertising and security lighting, often creating a chaotic scene, in which carefully considered daytime planning strategies are liberally reinterpreted or ignored.