TY - CHAP

T1 - Dark Practices

T2 - Sensing the City After Dusk

AU - Dunn, Nick

PY - 2025/1/13

Y1 - 2025/1/13

N2 - Different claims are made on the city after dusk as individuals and groups occupy, demarcate, and appropriate urban spaces. Presences are not necessarily visually apparent but are detectable in other ways such as sound and smell. What methods are available to sense how the city after dusk is constituted and reshaped because of the people who move and work through it? This chapter presents a mixed methods approach to help navigate and document the temporal micro-geographies of the urban night. Specifically, the chapter examines the work done within the inner-city area of Cheetham Hill in Manchester, UK. It sets out a methodology for how we might redesign the city after dusk to be a more convivial and inclusive place.

AB - Different claims are made on the city after dusk as individuals and groups occupy, demarcate, and appropriate urban spaces. Presences are not necessarily visually apparent but are detectable in other ways such as sound and smell. What methods are available to sense how the city after dusk is constituted and reshaped because of the people who move and work through it? This chapter presents a mixed methods approach to help navigate and document the temporal micro-geographies of the urban night. Specifically, the chapter examines the work done within the inner-city area of Cheetham Hill in Manchester, UK. It sets out a methodology for how we might redesign the city after dusk to be a more convivial and inclusive place.

KW - Design

KW - Multisensory

KW - Nightwalking

KW - Praxis

KW - Urban Night

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SN - 9789048558742

SP - 21

EP - 35

BT - Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces

A2 - Brandellero, Sara

A2 - Krakowska Rodrigues, Kamila

A2 - Perdue, Derek

PB - Amsterdam University Press

CY - Amsterdam

ER -