A Nighttime Tale

Light for Cities: Lighting Design for Urban Spaces--A Handbook
Birkhäuser: Basel, 2006

Ulrike Brandi and Christoph Geissmar-Brandi's just-released study of urban lighting design, Light for Cities, begins with a not so-fictional story illustrating the experience of arriving in a new city at night. Closely describing the haphazard condition of much urban lighting, the following chapters suggest an alternative, presenting a solid methodology for a new age of culturally and physically integrated urban lighting--covering everything from concept development to luminaire selection to specific typologies of public space.