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Light, Night and Urban Sustainability Symposium
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This symposium tackles the question of how the night-time of cities might be made environmentally sustainable, accessible, safe and culturally effervescent.听 A key (but not exclusive) focus of the symposium is the role of lighting in the night-time experience of cities.
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The night-time of cities has emerged in the last 15 years as a key concern of public policy across multiple sectors.听 New instruments of municipal governance (like听night mayors), studies of听night-time economies,听activism听to achieve the safety of women in the urban night, the extension of cultural activities into late night (nuits blanches, etc.), night-time transportation initiatives (the听Nochebus听in Mexico City), and movements for the听preservation of听 music venues听are all symptoms of the new attention which cities and city-dwellers are paying to their nights.
How might we sustain an experience of the night which is unmarred by endless conflicts over noise and illumination, safe for all genders and sexualities, accessible by public transportation and culturally diverse and effervescent?听 With experts from a variety of fields, the symposium will take up these issues.
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The event is organized by Prof.听Will Straw,听Axis听Co-Director at CRIEM, and supported by CIRM, 苹果淫院's听Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture and 苹果淫院 Sustainability Systems Initiative.
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