Turin
Italy
Turin, capital of the Piedmont region, is located in northwestern Italy, at the foot of the Alps.
After World War II, Turin was the symbol of Italy’s economic growth, so much so that it managed to attract hundreds of thousands of emigrants from southern Italy and the Veneto region because of the demands for labour in the automobile factories. By 1974 the city reached 1.2 million inhabitants.
Over the years, the city has gone through a long phase of industrial reconversion and is experiencing a major phase of tertiarization and development of the IT and electronics sectors.
In 2006 it was the site of the Winter Olympic Games. On that occasion, Turin, traditionally known as an industrial city, became known around the world for its many historical and cultural beauties and its beautiful landscape. New neighbourhoods have also been developed, which, together with the restoration of the historic center, have transformed Turin into a more liveable and accessible city.
The city’s tourist attractiveness has grown strongly and steadily. Since 2017, the city of Turin has steadily ranked among the top 10 in Italy for tourist arrivals and presences, 1,200,000 and 3,700,000 respectively. Turin was designated a UNESCO Creative City in the design sector, the only Italian city to win in 2014.
Number of inhabitants: 846 430
The LUCI network has enabled Turin to connect with professionals, technicians and artists, who are engaged in the field of urban lighting in a comprehensive way, with obvious benefits in the exchange of knowledge and best practices.
City of Turin
Urban lighting in Turin
The P.R.I.C – “Piano regolatore dell’illuminazione comunale” (City Lighting Plan) and of the P.L.D. – “Piano della luce decorativa” (Decorative Lighting Plan), were developed by the Enviroment Town Councillor Enzo Lavolta, with the help of IREN, the local electric supplier. The P.R.I.C answers the need for good lighting – essential for urban safety and energy saving – while the P.L.D. aims at enhancing architectonic and environmental landscapes by renewing 96.000 light sources (streetlamps, traffic and flashing lights, luminous roadsigns, monument lighting, etc.) in ten districts in Turin and restoring the historical and typical ones.
Therefore these two documents aim above all at warranting electricity and safety in every corner of the city, optimising the economic management of the whole electrical system and cutting down the light pollution and the running costs through the use of high-efficiency and long-life lamps, such as LED ones, as a replacement for incandescent lamps.
The plan was updated by IREN and the City in 2010 and it points out the main guidelines about planning private and public external electrical systems according to the most recent legislation about security of bikers and car traffic at night, management economy, promotion of the night view of Turin, energy saving, reduction of light pollution, coordination services from the view point of urban fabric.
Every year, from late October to mid-January, it hosts the Luci d’Artista light art festival, now in its 26th year.
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