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Order your copy of the book Eclairer la ville autrement
Coordinated by Jean-Michel Deleuil (INSA) and published with the support of LUCI, Eclairer la ville autrement brings together some recent experimentations and research in public lighting. Jean-Michel Deleuil (INSA) presents his work.
What are the origins and the vocation of this book?
This book has a double origin : the experimentations in public lighting « Evalum » that our research team has been leading with the City of Lyon and other partners ( EDF, Philips, ADEME), and the “Rencontres de la Lumière” conferences which, over the years, have brought together a great diversity of researchers and experts in lighting.
The “Rencontres de la Lumière” have been showing that experiences in lighting are developing; and that projects and methods are opening themselves to new spheres.
This book is the opportunity to describe the current trends in action.
What is the added value of a multidisciplinary approach?
City lighting managers are often confronted to contradictory demands: enhancing urban spaces and architecture while saving energy; offering comfort to citizens but respecting the darkness of nigh time; ensuring urban safety without generating light pollution, or making good choices in materials. As public lighting covers these various issues it appeared essential to bring together researchers and lighting experts from various backgrounds to fully explore the topic.
A few major teachings which appear throughout this research?....
From a university point a view, this book is the opportunity to affirm that lighting constitutes a real topic for urban research in the general frame of questions related to the management of the urban night time and its specificities. From a professional point of view, a few of these chapters confirm some major trends: the limits of functional lighting and the pertinence of qualitative approaches and the necessity to take into account local communities. Today, it appears necessary to think of lighting in the frame of global planning and project schemes. Tomorrow, this approach will probably integrate other reflexions on work, services, mobilities in order to think globally the management of urban night time.
The authors :
Jean Rémy Cauquil, Cyril Chain, Samuel Challeat, Isabelle Corten, Jean-Michel Daclin, Jean-Michel Deleuil, Sandra Fiori, Marc Fontoynont, Christelle Franzetti, Edna Hernandez Gonzalez, Martine Leroux, Vasiliki Malakasi, Christophe Marty, Roger Narboni, Tapio Rosenius, Christing Ruelle, Patricia Sajous, J. Alexander Schmidt, Jacques Teller, Martin Toellner, Geirges Zissis.
One free copy for LUCI members, 30% discount on all other copies.
To obtain your free copy as LUCI member or to purchase the book, please address your demand to luci@luciassociation.org
Public price: 42 euros