Michele Acuto is direcctor of the Melbourne Centre for Cities, Professor in Urban Politics and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.Andreina Seijas is a Venezuelan researcher and international consultant specialized in night-time governance and planning.Jenny McArthur is Associate Professor in Urban Infrastructure and Public Policy in UCL STEaPP. Enora Robin is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield.

• 1. Into the Night2. Who Governs the Night in Cities?3. Placing Night-Time Governance: In or Out?4. Night Time Governance Trajectories: A Public–Private Affair?5. Night Time Governance Trajectories: The Importance of Scales and Politics6. What Night-Time Agendas?7. Whose Night Is It?8. The Night-Time and the Pandemic9. Urban Governance after Dark: Eight Propositions