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Nightlife and Night-Time Economy in Urban China

The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China edited by Weiping Wu, Mark Frazier, 2018

This review describes popular forms of nocturnal leisure in contemporary China and outlines the debates surrounding nightlife and nocturnal leisure in this context. It reviews the related concepts of night-time economy and nightlife, and covers the sociological debates that surround and define these concepts.

Urban night Introduction The Urban Night: a Space Time for Innovation and Sustainable Development

Articulo - Journal of Urban Research, 2016

L’objectif est d’examiner la nuit urbaine comme un espace-temps d’innovation à différentes échelles et dans différents contextes géographiques. Dans cet article d’introduction, je rappelle que la nuit a été souvent abordée négativement. J’examine le phénomène de colonisation de la nuit, les pressions et les tensions sur les individus, les communautés, les organisations et les quartiers de la ville à plusieurs temps. Dans la deuxième partie, je me concentre sur les innovations qui se déploient dans les villes la nuit dans différents domaines : économie, social, environnement et culture. La dernière partie, je m’intéresse aux contributions des « études sur la nuit » pour les nuits de nos villes, l’urbanisme et le développement durable. The objective of this issue of Articulo – Journal of Urban Research - is to examine the urban night as an innovative space-time on different scales and in different geographic contexts. In this introduction, I remind the reader that the night has often been approached negatively. I discuss the process of colonization of the night and the pressures and strains experienced by the individuals, communities, organizations and neighborhoods of the “polychronic city”. In the second part, I focus on the innovations unfolding in cities at night in different fields: economic, social, environmental and cultural. In the last section, I look at the possible contributions of “night studies” to our urban nights, to urban planning and sustainable development.

Introduction: Geographies of the Night

Special Issue Urban Studies, 2014

Academic research tends to overlook what happens when night falls. This special issue aims to bring the space–time of the urban night to the fore by asking how nocturnal cities are produced, used, experienced and regulated in different geographical contexts. Despite local variations and specificities important similarities and ongoing transformations are identified regarding the long-term trends in the formation of the space–times of the urban night. We have structured this special issue on the basis of four important focal points of research for studying the night: (1) changing meanings and experiences of urban darkness and nights; (2) the evolution of the night-time economy; (3) the intensification of regulation; and (4) dynamics in practices of going out. By bringing different sets of literature and theoretical perspectives together this special issue provides a relational perspective on the urban night.

Concept of Night City: A New Dimension To A City’s Economy

ASIAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENT-BEHAVIOUR STUDIES, VOLUME 3, NUMBER 10, OCTOBER 2012

As an outcome of a comprehensive study on an area of 385.401 acres, a township in Alor Gajah, Malacca, was redesigned based on an innovative idea, ‘concept of night city’. The concept is believed to be economically viable. By using space syntax, an analysis of movement as well as the amount of activity likely to result from the movement is performed on the layout to determine if the redesign functions successfully. Results of the spatial analyses showed improvements in connectivity, integration, intelligibility and synergy levels. Based on the findings, the future town of Alor Gajah looks viable spatially.

Effects of nightlife activities on urban spaces and design: a case study of Cairo, Egypt

City, Territory and Architecture, 2022

Hyper-diversity in old communities should be rehabilitated to address various man-made changes that threaten sustainability and viability at night. This study elucidates this argument by reviewing and synthesising theoretical and empirical evidence about urban governance support regarding the participation of neighbourhood residents to improve or eliminate nightlife. The method is based on a systematic review, direct observation and interview with random samples of residents, workers and visitors in commercial and recreational places. This study criticises changes in the public space of the Al-Hussein Mosque, which led to changes in urban forms and affected the nightlife in Old Cairo. However, it asserts that the hyper-diversity of activities in public spaces because of the lack of urban governance controls should consider changes in terms of the participation of vulnerable groups in nightlife. A new conceptual framework for interpreting stakeholders' positive and negative responses is proposed, which operates across four overlapping steps of urban governance: predicting, proposing, preparing and preventing.

Into the Night-Time Economy: Work, Leisure, Urbanity and the Creative Industries

2000

The goal of this paper is to investigate the shape and challenges of urban and economic development. We continue the analysis of Paul Chatterton and Robert Hollands in Urban Nightscapes , to reveal the contradictions between the production, regulation and consumption of nightlife. Their research discussed nocturnal urban history as, "a story of corporate power, greed, domination and marginalization, not