Within the next 2-3 years, Danish regions and municipalities have to replace outdoor lighting for up to €400 million. So parts of the city of Copenhagen will be used for a huge experiment in smart lighting that could save ...
Urban Lighting: a right under threat?
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Sometime ago we found this amazing photo collection of Vancouver's mid-centruy photos with the city full of neon lights.
Vancouver is obviously not the only city loosing its neon lights. With more efficient lights ...
The disappearing art of Neon lights
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Just a few weeks ago we published a short excerpt from Jane Jacobs' 'Death and Life of Great American Cities', where she explains why street lighting alone is not enough to ensure street safety. According to Jacobs proper ...
Lack of street lighting in San Diego
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Disinfecting water using the natural UV rays of the sun is a common practice in the developing world. However the time needed for water to be exposed in the sun varies depending on the climate conditions and this can become ...
Solar disinfection
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Revisiting an all time favorite book, we found this piece relating urban lighting to the feeling of safety and social control, from Jane Jacobs' 1961 masterpiece 'Death and Life of Great American Cities'
" Bars ...
Jane Jacobs on Urban Lighting
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Apparently neon lights were great for cities in the 1950's. Take Vancouver for example: The company Neon Products Ltd., located in the city, estimated that Vancouver had the second-most neon signs per capita on the globe, ...
Neon City Lights
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In this very interesting article at Fast Co.exist we learn about a simple plastic panel that is able to redirect solar light down into dense urban streets.
Designed in Egypt, the panel doesn't use any additional energy ...
No more dark city streets?
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A US based company called Solar Roadways have one dream: to cover the entire country's highways with a solar road surface by thick, LED-lit glass.
We have been reading about this super interesting project and we suggest ...
Solar Roadways
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In this article at dezeen Daan Roosegarde explains his growing interest for biomimicry and his collaboration with the State University of New York and Alexander Krichevsky to develop light emitting trees that could ...
Trees as Streetlamps
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