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Lighting influences safety and feelings of safety by Mateja Mihinjac It’s that time of year again. Darkness lingers until nearly 7:30 a.m. a...

Sebring, Florida - sometimes, getting residents to start working together on street safety begins with a lighting contest and decorating doc...

Lighting for safety is not a simple matter by Mateja Mihinjac In our SafeGrowth work, we frequently hear calls from local residents for inst...

Fly into any major city at night and you’ll notice vast swaths of bright white lights replacing the yellow hue from high-pressure sodiu...

Front entrance to a Boulder neighborhood high school Boulder, Colorado is a small and dynamic city at the foothills of the Rocky Mountai...

Shopping mall parking lot - LPS lighting with halide lighting in adjacent property  Stargazing is a remarkable activity and even if you...

Uplighting sidewalk tree canopies with green tint - all photos from Ian Dryden A few months ago I met award-winning industrial designer...

Our community center last night at the end of the street Since 1970 the light source of choice in most cities has been sodium vapor, ...

Newhallville lighting before changes - photo David Nyberg,  Safe Streets Coalition GUEST BLOG I just received an interesting link to ...

Cities like Glasgow use blue LED streetlights for aesthetics photo  Gregor Sands Who is Nick Holonyak Jr.? You probably don...

Entrance to California exhibit at Disneyland. Light the feature, not the sidewalk A few days in Disneyland proves a welcoming distraction. ...

Encouraging movement and enlightening a dark wall. Sharing street lighting ideas on Facebook recently it occurred to me how often we forget...

Night-time lighting in many cities is awful GUEST BLOG When it comes to safety on the street, we've talked about the role of walkability...

More good news out of Los Angeles, a place some associate with gang wars and rampant crime. Think again. A few blogs ago we read about the V...

A number of these blogs have covered safety and street lighting . Recently a friend sent me this newsclip: USA Today It turns out municipali...

This week I spent time in Toronto, a city with a terrific downtown and dozens of vibrant and healthy neighborhoods. It is also a city with a...