Envision the nocturnal territory: Urban lighting as a design strategy for the recovery of places

This paper aims to address artificial lighting as an urban design material and to picture the nocturnal dimension of cities as an important design lever for the recovery of a territory. This research has focused in the exploration of tangible and intangible aspects of urban lighting in order to propose a design toolkit based on multidisciplinary backgrounds to rethink the social urbanity from the street level perspective at night. Thus, to picture the strategic use of artificial lights to reinvent public spaces at night without the dominance of technology over environmental and aesthetics quality.