An expansion of the night-time economy, an increasing everydayness of late-night work and leisure activities, tourism and changing household-structures-these are major driving forces behind the 'night-time city' according to Marion Roberts and Adam Eldridge. The book's main concern might be carved out as a claim for the better reintegra- tion of town planning's and urban design's skills into the regulation of these trends in England and Wales. In order to develop possible relationships, the authors set out by unfolding the various aspects of night life in the public realm from lighting to work habits to narratives on the night, but focus particularly on alcohol-related developments subsequently because "in Britain its expansion has been problematic" (p. 1).
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