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WHY?
- To improve visibility
- To extend the day
- To enhance commerce and “urban” activities (leisure).
- To feel safer
- Primal fear of the dark
HOW to improve lighting?
- Minimizing glare/blinding
- Use white light allows lower illumination levels
- Illumination level reduction can be done keeping the same target visibility:
https://youtu.be/VrqOWTPX7eQ
- Contrast matters (more that uniformity or lighting level)
- Use warm Correlated Color Temperature (CCT):