Archive for Night
August 7, 2009 · Filed under Crime, Night, Parks, Safety
Harvard Park has been a no-man’s land after dark for decades. Its location, at the borders of rival gang turf, has made it more a demilitarized zone than public space since the inception of this city’s oldest and most entrenched street gangs. So there was a giddy excitement among the thousand or so South Los Angeles neighbors who came last week to celebrate the park’s inclusion in Summer Night Lights, a program designed to combat gang violence by keeping lights on until midnight in some of the city’s roughest parks.
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Popularity: 37% [?]
July 28, 2009 · Filed under Energy, Infrastructure, Night, Pedestrians, Safety
Residents of a German village can turn on a street light like they would a reading lamp: whenever they need to.
Dörentrup, located 320 kilometres west of Berlin, has adopted an energy-saving program that lets someone use a cellphone to turn on a street light by dialling the code number found on the lamppost.
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Popularity: 38% [?]
June 23, 2009 · Filed under EcoCities, Energy, Night, Safety
In an effort to save money, a village in central Germany has opted to turn off its street lights. But residents have no need to be in the dark: Using a mobile phone and code, they can order lighting for up to 15 minutes.
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Popularity: 26% [?]
May 28, 2009 · Filed under Climate Change, Ecosystems, Night, Planning, Zoning
Pastures, forests, suburbs, cities, farms, and so on, all affect the skies in very particular spatial ways. Deforestation, for instance, has “substantially altered cloud patterns” in the Amazon; specifically, we read that “patches of trees behave as ‘green oceans’ while cleared pastures act like ‘continents’,” generating a new marbling of the local atmosphere.
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Popularity: 24% [?]
May 14, 2009 · Filed under Beauty, Night, Public Life, Street Furniture
I am not a luddite, but I do have a very healthy skepticism about technology representing our salvation. In the past 10 generations, we have succeeded in making an enormous mess, thanks to technology, a mess of such proportions that we are only now beginning to understand what we have done, and what the mess means for our future. Now we use technology to assess the damage, and the reports are grim.
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Popularity: 30% [?]
January 12, 2009 · Filed under Beauty, Night
As lighting moves beyond its utilitarian role, urban planners are embracing it as a way to showcase a city’s character.
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Popularity: 11% [?]
