It was just about midnight when we parked under the streetlight in front of the empty Mexican place on Main Street.

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As the party wound down, Chang stepped from the warm glow of lanterns to the cold streetlight reflected off the surrounding skyscrapers.

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Suddenly every streetlight seemed to reveal some touching, unlikely, almost staged tableau.

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Away from his client work, one of Lovegrove's projects is the "Car on a Stick, " an electric bubble car that turns into an elevated streetlight at night.

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The streetlight switch-off was introduced in two phases between August 2007 and September 2008 and a public consultation on the proposals came to an end on 15 April this year.

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