The Human and Social Dimension of Urban Lightscapes

This book explores new criteria and characteristics for integrating human psychology in the design of modern urban lighting. It identifies a new area of lighting design research and practice that focuses on the nocturnal urban experience in terms of people’s emotional, cognitive and motivational per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Casciani, Daria
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Series:PoliMI SpringerBriefs
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • City and sociality at night
  • The human-scale urban lighting experience
  • The assessment of affective, social appraisal and behaviours of human scale lighting experience
  • In situ experience of the human-scale urban lightscape
  • A virtual experience of the human-scale urban lightscape
  • Interacting with the human-scale lightscape
  • From design research to design practice of urban social lighting