Community Architect: Cities of Light Versus Dark Skies
Light and darkness have been in an eternal battle from the beginning of humanity. As in good and evil, in enlightenment and the dark ages, all in all leaving darkness disadvantaged. Flying over the United States at night, one can get the strong impression that light wins against darkness, energy conservation and the dark skies movement notwithstanding.
In this post we will leave those philosophical, ethical and prejudicial questions aside to shed some darkness on light as a man-made product that has become a menace to the environment as easily visible by the lumens or foot candles put out by parking lots and gas stations. The spread of light is much reinforced by the rapidly spreading
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Klaus Philipsen FAIA
Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
Baltimore MD
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