ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that there is much goes unnoticed in the city, especially in the interstitial and liminal spaces that are often overlooked. It explores a different and less familiar side of our cities, that is, during those hours when the daylight has gone. The chapter proposes that perhaps the primacy of architecture is not its body in light but is to be found within the itinerant, fleeting shawl of darkness that recasts our built environment and senses away from the dominance of the visual towards a multisensory experience. It draws on empirical data and personal experience in order to contribute to an understanding of the anthropology of the nocturnal city. The chapter seeks to elucidate on the ongoing entanglement that occurs at the boundaries of body and urban landscape: day and night; space and materiality.
