"I sometimes fancy that every great city must have been built by night. At
least, it is only at night that every part of a great city is great. All
architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is
really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks." GK Chesterton "The Giant" in Tremendous Trifles
The cynic in me says that's because you can better hide the unattractive parts at night.
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