The document discusses the use of lighting in urban design to create inviting, inclusive, and active nighttime environments. It provides examples of lighting installations that encourage social interaction, such as a light playground in Sweden and glowing waterway in Germany. The document also discusses tools and methodologies for "smart everyday nighttime design", including pilot programs for lighting doorways and street corners. Finally, it presents a case study of a lighting strategy developed through community engagement for the Jackson Heights and Corona neighborhoods of Queens, New York.

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The black of night is an opportunity for the lighting urbanist to
design an environment that is enticing, inclusive and which
promotes activity and reflection. Illumination's seemingly
magic and delightful properties when artfully conceptualized
and crafted, provide atavistic and celebratory atmospheres
lacking in common city life.
Into darkness the artistry of light proclaims a special power to
inspire, play, encourage the best proclivities of our built and
commercial environment, perhaps to realize this quote from
the special effects master Edgar Allan Poe.

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Then we sallied forth into the streets, arm in arm,

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or roaming far and wide until a late hour,

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seeking amid the wild lights and shadows of the populous city,

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that infinity of mental excitement

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which quiet observation can afford.

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Nighttime Design:
Best Practice
An interdisciplinary practice transforming
cities into sustainable inclusive, beautiful
and healthy places to work and play.

8. ‹#›‹#› Global Lighting Urbanism
Nighttime Design Objectives
Public
Health
Economic
vitality
Welcome
(safety)

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Some examples of illuminated environments —pilots
and permanently installed — that encourage social
interaction and a new understanding of infrastructure
and the city.
Nighttime Design:
New Methodologies

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Light Playground, Alingsas, Sweden
Parking Lot Transformation: Active light

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Glowing Waterway, Unna, Germany
Temporary Artworks: Riverine Interpretation

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A Promenade: Experience

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A Plaza: Site Specific

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Chroma Streams, Kingston Bridge, Glasgow UK
The Brutalist Bridge: Information Display

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Elevated Bus Ramps: Transformed by Light

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Large-scale and local. Developing tools to inform:
1. Smart Everyday Nighttime Design
2. Smart Nighttime Tools
Nighttime Design:
Arup Global Research

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Large Scale Masterplans: District & regional

18. 18 Doorway Lighting Program, Brooklyn, NY
Smart Everyday Nighttime Design: Doorway
lighting pilot

19. 19 Doorway Lighting Program, Brooklyn, NY
Smart Everyday Nighttime Design: Doorway
lighting pilot

20. 20 Doorway Lighting Program, Brooklyn, NY
Smart Everyday Nighttime Design: Doorway
lighting pilot

21. 21 Street Corners!
Left: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - The Street Corner, William H. Whyte (1969-1980)
Implied: Street Corner Society, William Foote Whyte (1943)
Right: Street corner dramas, Leni Schwendinger (Illustration: City People Light/Philips 2006)
Smart Everyday Nighttime Design: Street corner
pilots

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Case Study:
Jackson Heights/ Corona Partnership Lighting Strategy
Roadmap for Illumination, Placemaking
and Community-Building
Queens, New York City
2014

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Community Meetings

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Community Charrette

26. ‹#› Living Lanterns - Activating Community Public Space with a Festival of Light

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OneLightatNight–AStorefrontProject

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OneLightatNight–AStorefrontProject

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UnderpassLight-IlluminatingtheCorridorandEnhancingPlace

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UnderpassLight-IlluminatingtheCorridorandEnhancingPlace

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Booklet to be published soon
• Guidelines, proposals, recommendations