1987
DOI: 10.2307/2930197
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The Policing of Street Lighting

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“…While these ideas have been discussed at length in the recent academic literature (Painter 1996 ; Welsh and Farrington 2008 ), the essentials of this insight have been recognized for at least several hundred years. Indeed, one of the primary motivations for expansion of outdoor lighting in 17th century Europe was to allow more people to use outdoor areas at night without fear for their personal safety (Schivelbusch 1987 ).…”
Section: Street Lighting Fear Of Crime and Use Of Public Spacementioning
confidence: 99%
“…While these ideas have been discussed at length in the recent academic literature (Painter 1996 ; Welsh and Farrington 2008 ), the essentials of this insight have been recognized for at least several hundred years. Indeed, one of the primary motivations for expansion of outdoor lighting in 17th century Europe was to allow more people to use outdoor areas at night without fear for their personal safety (Schivelbusch 1987 ).…”
Section: Street Lighting Fear Of Crime and Use Of Public Spacementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Durante algum tempo a obrigação de instalação e fiscalização das condições da iluminação pública esteve a cargo da polícia colonial, o que aponta que a iluminação em sua origem foi financiada por questão de segurança, como também foram os casos de grandes cidades europeias como Paris e Londres alguns anos antes (SCHIVELBUSCH, 1987). A ação de iluminar as ruas da cidade esteve, assim, associada ao problema da ordem urbana, o que pode ser o indicador preliminar de uma incipiente vida noturna ou, pelo menos, da presença de mais pessoas nas ruas durante a noite.…”
Section: As Primeiras Luzes O Cerimonial Religioso E O Policiamentounclassified
“…However viewing the light from the perspective of the household as well as from the street there is also another, related interpretation. In his historical analysis of street lighting, Schivelbusch (1987) charts the historical development of streetlight in Paris as an attempt to appropriate public space by state authority. With the introduction of a state-owned lighting system came a similar symbolic appropriation of the street as a state-ordered space.…”
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confidence: 99%