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Dark Matters – A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
Nick Dunn
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Description for Dark Matters – A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
Paperback. Where now for the secret, the contemplative, the quiet and subterranean in our cities? The question may no longer be what spaces we wish to engage with but when are they? Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 273 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of miscreants, shift workers and transgressors. Yet the night offers much to be enjoyed beyond vice. Night by definition contrasts day, summoning notions of darkness and fear. But another night exists out there. Liberation and exhilaration in the urban landscape is increasingly rare when so much of our attention and actions are controlled. Rather than consider darkness ... Read more
Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of miscreants, shift workers and transgressors. Yet the night offers much to be enjoyed beyond vice. Night by definition contrasts day, summoning notions of darkness and fear. But another night exists out there. Liberation and exhilaration in the urban landscape is increasingly rare when so much of our attention and actions are controlled. Rather than consider darkness ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782797487
SKU
V9781782797487
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-49
About Nick Dunn
Nick Dunn is the author of numerous books on architecture, art practices, design processes and urbanism. He is Chair of Urban Design at Imagination, an open and exploratory research lab at Lancaster University where he is also Research Director for the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts and Associate Director of the Institute for Social Futures. He lives and walks ... Read more
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