The Policing of Street Lighting

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang

doi:10.2307/2930197

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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

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Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment

Kaplan

Chalfin

2021

Secur J

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Observational evidence suggests that better ambient lighting leads people to feel safer when spending time outdoors in their community. We subject this finding to greater scrutiny and elaborate on the extent to which improvements in street lighting affect routine activities during nighttime hours. We report evidence from a survey experiment that examines individuals’ perceptions of safety under two different intensities of nighttime ambient lighting. Brighter street lighting leads individuals to feel safer and over half of survey respondents are willing to pay an additional $400 per year in taxes in order to finance a hypothetical program which would replace dim yellow street lights with brighter LED lights. However, poor lighting does not change people’s willingness to spend time outdoors or to engage in behaviors which mitigate risk. Results suggest that street lighting is a means through which policymakers can both control crime and improve community well-being. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41284-021-00296-0.

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Section: Street Lighting Fear Of Crime and Use Of Public Spacementioning

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Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment

Kaplan

Chalfin

2021

Secur J

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“…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.…”

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“Na Calada da Noite”: Modernidade e Conservadorismo na Vida Noturna Carioca (1760-1950)

Góis

2015

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O objetivo deste artigo é compreender, a partir de um olhar geográfico sobre o passado, o lugar da noite na vida social do carioca no período do Rio de Janeiro capital. O que aqui denominamos de vida noturna se inscreve, assim, às práticas ocorridas nos espaços públicos durante a noite. Acreditamos que tais práticas estão relacionadas a mudanças mais gerais da sociedade carioca, o que acaba por estabelecer uma ordem espacial para a sua ocorrência. Desta forma, os modelos conservadores de modernização da capital foram relevantes elementos para a constituição de “uma cidade que dorme cedo” e que até muito recentemente tinha uma relativa aversão ao uso dos espaços públicos durante a noite. Isto talvez nos ajude a entender processos atuais, nos quais estes espaços se tornaram chaves interpretativas da vida noturna carioca.

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“…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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Domestic Boundaries

Garvey

2005

Journal of Material Culture

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The article presents an exploration of domestic borders in the Norwegian town of Skien. Differences between homes may be minimal, however the differentiation between homes, can occasionally, be marked (Wallman, 1978: 203). This observation has relevance for Norwegian and Somali households whereby perceptions of domestic boundaries, visibility and definitions of privacy are analysed. The domestic window is shown to provide one material medium for the negotiation of ethnic identity and social classification. I argue notions of the private are dynamic and contextual and frequently have less to do with ‘being seen’ than with a perception of the social gaze. Consequently, looking at ethnic minorities, Norwegian locals and the private home in Skien does not just imply investigating the link between visibility and privacy but questioning the ideas on which this link is based, and rethinking notions of privacy itself.

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The Policing of Street Lighting

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Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment

Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment

“Na Calada da Noite”: Modernidade e Conservadorismo na Vida Noturna Carioca (1760-1950)

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