Urban Lighting for People : Evidence-Based Lighting Design for the Built Environment

Lighting has the power toilluminate and enhance our experience within the built environment.The lightthat enables people to travel around their neighbourhood or their city; thelight which they see themselves and their neighbourhood under.Research intothe effects of urban lighting on behaviour, environmental psychology and socialinteraction is developing at a rapid rate.Yet, despite the affect it has onour daily lives, the practical application of this research is a relativelyuntapped resource.There has been a persistent trend to use lighting as a toolfor urban regeneration and many major urban lighting projects around the countryare underway but there is more that can be done on a variety of scales. This book explores the needs andexperiences of people at night and how these can be addressedby public lighting.It will give readers the confidence to develop moresophisticated lighting plans and add value to their projects.Case studiesprovide in-depth analysis of real-life projects and will help the reader tounderstand lighting designers’ own experiences, including post-installationobservations.Written in an accessible style by an array of experts, this is anessential book for practitioners, academics and students alike, that willenable you to put the research in to practice and develop better lighting forbetter places.