Learning to observe the city in the darkness: the in-between of the nocturnal urban landscape
Between the two worlds of light and darkness, it is the lighting designer who decides what is illuminated or what is left in the shadows. Usually contrasted with day, night is anchored in a binary state that long deprived us from its existence. In a context of artificial light’s expansion and of questioning the quality of urban lifestyles, can we still ignore the night? Conducted as part of a broader research on Montreal’s landscape at night; we present, in this article, a review of approaches and questions about how we perceive and plan the city at night to reveal landscape issues yet unknown.