Metropolitics

Getting Night Lighting Right

Samuel Challéat & Dany Lapostolle & translated by Oliver Waine — 2018-11-02T06:00:00Z

Innovation in contemporary urban lighting has increasingly been driven by issues of sustainability. While environmental concerns focus attention on energy savings and reducing light pollution, taking account of how people use public spaces is important too, as artificial light can then be adjusted to actual needs. Following the pioneering work of Roger Narboni and Luc Gwiazdzinski, Samuel Challéat and Dany Lapostolle make the case for dedicated nocturnal city planning.
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- Essays / France, urban planning, sustainable development, Toulouse, use of space, Grenoble, night, urban temporalities, urban project, lighting

The sustainable metropolis: when night enlightens day

Luc Gwiazdzinski & translated by Oliver Waine — 2014-03-05T05:50:00Z

The night-time, long a neglected dimension of the city, can no longer be dismissed. Luc Gwiazdzinski invites us to explore this nocturnal realm and together imagine the contours of this particular form of metropolitan urbanity, as he believes the night has a lot to tell us about the daytime and the future more generally.
The night is a wonderful space for renewal and replenishment, for invention and new projects for our changing cities, and for their inhabitants in search points of reference.

- Essays / public space, sustainable development, innovation, territorial development, metropolis, night, urban temporalities, chronotopia