Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important
for pedestrians' safety, personal security, and comfort, with major
impacts on street, path, and park aesthetics and neighborhood sense of
place. Providing clear, basic technical background (accessible to
non-engineers), the book focuses especially on planning and policy
concerns. It covers the fundamentals of lighting technology; benefits,
costs, and possible adverse impacts of lighting enhancements;
traditional and innovative approaches; planning and policy documents and
practices; aesthetics and placemaking; and technology trends in lighting
design. This book is aimed primarily at practicing transportation
planners and engineers, generalist urban planners, safety advocates and
researchers, and university students. However, lighting designers and
other professionals will also find it useful. It considers how lighting
can be coordinated with other potential improvements to enhance the
pedestrian environment for better walkability.