ABSTRACT
The chapter explores the ways in which experiences of the dark can transform the familiar spaces of home, using phenomenological arguments that help to explain the production of subjectivity in these spaces. It argues that the socio-cultural context of the urban night pervades the home, with a lack of support networks and services enhancing isolation. The chapter focuses on the public spaces that have been identified in the literature as sites that shape the city at night. It discusses timespace that researchers visit less often – the home at night. The chapter also explores how subjectivity is produced in the urban night. It also argues that the defining features of the night at home are predicated on the absence of many of the ways in which urban life operates. As such, the home at night might fall outside of the 'planetary urbanism'.
