New York City's Glow Dims
"Gone are the days when cheap electricity, primitive lighting technology and landlords' desire to showcase their skyscrapers kept floor after floor of the city's highest towers glowing into the...
View ArticleUrban Light Affecting Animal Behavior
"The scientists showed that as well as direct light sources, polarised light also triggered potentially dangerous changes in many species' behaviour.""They added that road surfaces and glass buildings...
View ArticlePreserving Darkness
"The goal is to establish a zone with a radius of six to nine miles around the 130-year-old Pic du Midi mountain observatory so that views of the cosmos are not spoiled by intrusive light on the...
View ArticleTurning off the Lights to See the Stars
"Everywhere, light pollution is an increasing problem," said Andrej Mohar, an amateur astronomer in Slovenia who has lobbied for light regulations there.Publication Date: Wed, 10/17/2012
View ArticleSustainability Over Tradition as Paris Turns Out the Lights
"France is proud of its lights. Tourists cherish the Christmas illuminations on the Champs-Élysées, the 20,000 flashing bulbs on the Eiffel Tower and the bright, imaginative shop windows of large...
View ArticleArtist Envisions the Elusive Pleasures of Urban Stargazing
"What would New York or Shanghai look like with a full sky of brilliant stars?" asks Julie Bosman.Publication Date: Fri, 02/01/2013
View ArticleLight Pollution in Rural Virginia: A Photo Essay
"We use the term 'light pollution' to cover the many different examples of society’s overuse and misuse of artificial light. Most of this light is electric, though increasingly it is electronic (think...
View ArticleChicago Lighting Proposal Would Turn the Wattage Up
"Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s latest idea to boost Chicago’s tourism numbers involves finding a company to light up city bridges, buildings, CTA platforms and other locations," reports John Byrne.Publication...
View ArticleHow LEDs Re-Illuminate the Urban Night Sky
Los Angeles's Bureau of Street Lighting has been busy in the last five years, spending $57 million to replace 155,000 streetlamps with light-emitting diode (LED) lights. With 60,000 more to go, most of...
View ArticleKeeping Cities in the Dark
"The trillions of points of light in the true night sky are no match for the mere billions on the ground. You know the culprits: streetlights; parking lots; gas stations; billboards; preening...
View ArticleFriday Night Lights: NASA Can See Your Holiday Lights from Space
According to Brad Plumer, "many large US cities are 20 to 50 percent brighter at night during the holiday season than they are during the rest of the year."Publication Date: Wed, 12/17/2014
View ArticleDesigning the Shadow-less Skyscraper
Using digital design platform Rhinoceros, architects modeled the shape a shadow-less skyscraper would need to take. "They used computer modeling to design a pair of buildings, one of which works like a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cities Try to Turn on the Dark
Electric light has made cities eminently more functional, and visually riotous, than they otherwise would have been. It's the externality that no one seems to mind.Publication Date: Tue, 04/21/2015
View ArticleNew York City's Glow Dims
"Gone are the days when cheap electricity, primitive lighting technology and landlords' desire to showcase their skyscrapers kept floor after floor of the city's highest towers glowing into the...
View ArticleUrban Light Affecting Animal Behavior
"The scientists showed that as well as direct light sources, polarised light also triggered potentially dangerous changes in many species' behaviour.""They added that road surfaces and glass buildings...
View ArticlePreserving Darkness
"The goal is to establish a zone with a radius of six to nine miles around the 130-year-old Pic du Midi mountain observatory so that views of the cosmos are not spoiled by intrusive light on the...
View ArticleTurning off the Lights to See the Stars
"Everywhere, light pollution is an increasing problem," said Andrej Mohar, an amateur astronomer in Slovenia who has lobbied for light regulations there.Publication Date: Wed, 10/17/2012
View ArticleSustainability Over Tradition as Paris Turns Out the Lights
"France is proud of its lights. Tourists cherish the Christmas illuminations on the Champs-Élysées, the 20,000 flashing bulbs on the Eiffel Tower and the bright, imaginative shop windows of large...
View ArticleArtist Envisions the Elusive Pleasures of Urban Stargazing
"What would New York or Shanghai look like with a full sky of brilliant stars?" asks Julie Bosman.Publication Date: Fri, 02/01/2013
View ArticleLight Pollution in Rural Virginia: A Photo Essay
"We use the term 'light pollution' to cover the many different examples of society’s overuse and misuse of artificial light. Most of this light is electric, though increasingly it is electronic (think...
View Article
