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4. Because of the bright lights of the modern cities, when we look up at the sky, we can see no more than 100 stars. But from dark parts of the Earth, the naked eye can see more than 5,000! And modern telescopes tell a very different story. With the help of some of the world's most powerful instruments to measure the brightness of all the
22 de set. de 2020 · Because of the bright lights of the modern cities, when we look up at the sky we can see no more than 100 stars. But from dark parts of the Earth, the naked eye can see more than 5,000! And modern telescopes tell a very different story.
30 de mar. de 2022 · “The role that urban lighting plays in cities will be influenced more and more by a multitude of social, economic, environmental, technological, and political factors. A sustainable urban lighting design helps cities to master the challenge of the future to be more resilient while also being a healthy, comfortable, safe and fun ...
- From Dark to Light
- The Cost of Light
- Valuing Darkness
Since the Enlightenment, Western culture has been closely bound with ideas of illumination and darkness as representative of good and evil. Shining a light on all things meant the pursuit of truth, purity, knowledge and wisdom. Darkness, by contrast, was associated with ignorance, deviancy, malevolence and barbarism. Between the 16th and 18th centu...
This is not a small issue. Scientists are increasingly referring to this as a global challenge. The International Dark-Sky Association has shown that the waste in both energy and money is huge – in the US alone this adds up to $3.3 billion and an unnecessary release of 21 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year. Of greater concern are the devast...
Dark skies have value. They are a profoundly wonderful yet highly threatened natural asset. It is unsurprising that people are increasingly rediscovering the joys of walking at night, whether in cities or the countryside. We need a new conception of the dark and new visions for places that enable us to reconnect with the night sky through more resp...
23 de mai. de 2014 · The “ bright lights, big city ” of which Jimmy Reed sang in the 1950s became a dominant image of the modern city, establishing a new rhetoric of urban space in which lighting for productivity and...
- Scott Mcquire
15 de set. de 2008 · NASA Photo by Don Pettit. The richness of how humans sprinkle their lights across the nightscape is striking when viewed from orbit. These lights present a spectacular display, like tendrils...
By Sandy Isenstadt , Margaret Maile Petty , Dietrich Neumann. Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours.
