“…Likewise, nights have been seen as a time and place for nefarious activities and supernatural 3 This is an extremely brief overview that paints complex social developments and value conflicts in broad strokes. A great deal more nuance to the issues highlighted here can be found in book-length studies or edited collections on the history of lighting and cities at night (e.g., Schivelbusch, 1988;Nye, 1990;Schlör, 1998;Palmer, 2000;Ekirch, 2005;Koslofsky, 2011;Isenstadt et al, 2014;Edensor, 2017;Dunn and Edensor, 2021); via recent scholarship into the relationship between social practices at night, darkness, and race that further complicates questions of power and surveillance within urban nights (e.g., Browne, 2015;Elcott, 2021); through analysing the related spatial and social differentiation within different cities created by lighting choices (e.g., Williams, 2008;Edensor and Dunn, 2021); and through delving deeper into other political forces closely intertwined with electric light, such as capitalism and changing labour conditions (e.g., Isenstadt, 2018;Shaw, 2018). However, while these issues would add depth, nuance, and perhaps some diverging perspectives to this argument, the overarching continuity of value conflicts within urban nightscapes -and critically their continual manifestation in/through the specific infrastructure of street lighting -would remain.…”