Lighting cities for urban renewal

This paper will explore urban lighting design as part of a wider framework of political goals, incentives and evaluation in the field of urban planning and development. It will outline some of the structural challenges European cities see themselves confronted with and will present the strategies that are currently employed to solve those problems with regard to lighting design.

Nona Schulte-Römer is a research fellow in the Cultural Sources of Newness department at the Social Science Research Center Berlin. She graduated from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2006 in Theatre Studies/Cultural Communication, Politics and Cultural Studies, concluding with a thesis on the social impact of architecture from a cultural historic perspective. In her doctoral thesis, she will focus on innovations in urban lighting.

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