Urban decompression.
Teeming with life, chaos and colour, our cities are the great engines of our civilisation. People live in close proximity and endlessly communicate and interact.
Like many diurnal animals, as the light of the day fades and night covers all, we seek shelter and warmth in our homes and familiar haunts.
The streets empty of traffic and pavements cease ringing with footfall.
Yet in even the humblest town life is easily glimpsed through illuminated windows or below street lights.
The relative absence of people allows us to look at the city more carefully, to see its form when stripped of the daytime noise. Our urban structures are testaments to our creativity, history and flexibility.
The quiet city allows us to see what we ignore during the day.
Trattoria al Ponte Del Megio, Venice, Italy.
Warm lamplight illuminating a small restaurant beside a narrow canal and footbridge in Venice’s Santa Croce district.
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High-rise apartment building, Tokyo, Japan.
After rush hour, families return home and the lights go on in windows across the Shinjuku district of the world’s biggest city.
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Waterfront developments, Oslo, Norway.
Like many European cities, when waterfronts change from industrial to residential the result is expensive apartments overlooking the harbour like these in Aker Brygge.
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Shuttered shopfronts, Bhaktapur, Nepal.
Ornately carved woodwork and hand made bricks face the narrow alleyways of this UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Kathmandu Valley.
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10,000 souls in the hive, Hong Kong.
Despite being one of the most densely populated areas in the world, when the ground floor shops and restaurants close for the evening a tranquil calm descends in the courtyard of Quarry Bay.
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You can't miss it, Tokyo, Japan.
At the end of the street is the world’s tallest tower. The Tokyo Skytree overlooking the deserted alleyways of Sumida.
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Only the cows and the smoke stir, Kathmandu, Nepal.
At dawn even the monkeys are silent amongst the shrines and temples before the devout start their day in Pashupatinath.
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Crowded house, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The warm stucco of irregular blocks guarded by skyscraper watchtowers all around.
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Sodium cobbles and cobalt sky, Stockholm, Sweden.
In midsummer the skies above Gamla Stan never really get completely dark but warm lamplight still illuminates the narrow alleyways.
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A space in the neighbourhood, Seoul, South Korea.
Group of teenagers practising their dance moves in a void in the backstreets of Jongno-gu beneath the neon night skyscrapers.
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