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1st Edition

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

Edited By Navaz Davoudian Copyright 2019

208 Pages

by RIBA Publishing

208 Pages

by RIBA Publishing

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Description

Book Award Finalist for Urban Design Group Awards 2020 Lighting has the power to illuminate and enhance our experience within the built environment. The light that enables people to travel around their neighbourhood or their city; the light which they see themselves and their neighbourhood under. Research into the effects of urban lighting on behaviour, environmental psychology and social... Read more

Table of Contents

Part 1: Night, City, Society

1. The Social Study of Urban Lighting

Dr Elettra Bordonaro, Dr Don Slater and Dr Joanne Entwistle

2. Urban Lighting Masterplan - Definitions, Methodologies, Collaboration

Dr Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska

3. Older People and Urban Lighting

Dr Navaz Davoudian

Part 2: Exploring the Night City

4. Lighting for Reassurance

Dr Jemima Unwin

5. Wayfinding and the Hierarchy of Urban Elements at Night

Dr Navaz Davoudian

6. The Interaction of People, Light and Public Space: The Changing Role of Light

Isabel Kelly and Dr Navaz Davoudian

Part 3: Lighting Practitioners’ Post Evaluation

7. Learned Lessons from Design Projects

Dan Lister and Emily Dufner

Editor(s)

Biography

Navaz Davoudian is a senior researcher at UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering.

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