#  Designing for Darkness: What Can Latin American Cities Learn From the Arabian Peninsula? 

 





April 13, 2017

 

 

 Andreina Seijas, an incoming doctoral student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, attended the April 7-8 symposium [After Dark: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula](/event/after-dark-nocturnal-landscapes-and-public-space-arabian-peninsula), jointly sponsored by the Aka Khan Program at the GSD and by Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. In her [Ciudades Sostenibles](https://blogs.iadb.org/ciudadessostenibles/2017/04/13/darkness/) blog, Seijas writes about the challenges of urban design in the Arabian Peninsula, regarding especially the night-time urban landscape, that participants explored, and she speculates how some of the lessons learned and in progress in the Arabian Peninsula might apply to Latin American cities facing similar challenges.



 

 

 



 

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