An essay on the topic" the metropolis at night".(350 words)
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Answer:
The sustainable metropolis: when night enlightens day
Explanation:
The night is a wonderful space for renewal and replenishment, for invention and new projects for our changing cities, and for their inhabitants in search points of reference. It is time to put the night firmly on the agenda and anticipate the inevitable development of night-time activities, with the aim of thinking seriously about the overall development of the 24-hour city and a new form of sensory, temporal and temporary urbanism.
The night: a temporal space under pressure
Urban nights are not deserts. In the unique temporal space that is the night, a part of social and economic life is now forever awake, creating other centralities and sociabilities. From illuminations to all-night cultural events, power cuts, unsafe roads, noise pollution, light pollution and urban violence, the night makes its way into the daytime news, for better or for worse. Over the last 15 years or so, the colonisation of the urban night-time has been accelerating and we have seen a gradual “diurnisation” of the night with the arrival of mundane daytime activities. The frontier between day and night is moving and pressure is growing under the effects of the non-stop nature of the economy and various networks. The night, like other traditional periods of rest, such as Sundays or lunch breaks, is gradually being eroded by human activity.
Colonised by light and daytime activities, the night – outpost of the day – is the scene of temporal conflicts between different neighbourhoods, activities, groups and individuals within the city. The city that sleeps, the city that parties and the city that works do not always make good bedfellows. Tensions arise in the archipelago of urban nights, and borders are built up that challenge and compromise harmonious living
EXAMPLE TOKYO:
Tokyo has something of an unofficial curfew: the trains stop at 12-ish and begin again around 4. People run for the last train so they can get some amount of sleep to be ready for work the next morning. Those that miss the last train, whether intentionally or unintentionally, usually make their way to the city’s clubs or bars, karaoke establishments and manga cafes. I wanted to look outside of those areas. This photo essay is a slice of the city not seen by many Tokyoites. I travelled the city during the late-late night hours by bike, taking pictures of the atmosphere and personality of all-night Tokyo.