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The Light Justice Quarterly | Winter 2024
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Light Justice August 2022 Newsletter
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“Achieving Equitable Indoor Lighting,” Lighting Design + Application, December 2023, by Edward Bartholomew, Mark Loeffler, and Lya Shaffer Osborn
“Omnipresence Weaponizes Light,” Light Justice, June 2022
“With Good Lighting and Justice for All,” Lighting Design + Application, September 2021, by Edward Bartholomew and Mark Loeffler
“Light Justice in Action,” Lighting Design + Application, February 2022, by Edward Bartholomew and Mark Loeffler
“Light+Justice,” NOMAct Intersections, Q1 2022, by Edward Bartholomew and Mark Loeffler
“Lighting for Equitable Revitalization,” Connecticut Main Street Center, April 2022, by Edward Bartholomew and Mark Loeffler
“Public Lighting and the Urban Wealth Gap,” Brown Political Review, by Isabella Creatura
Pedestrian fatalities: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-08/-safe-streets-are-not-safe-for-black-lives
and https://www.npr.org/2021/03/23/980438205/americas-roads-are-getting-deadlier-and-fatality-rates-are-worse-for-minorities
“Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition,” by Tawana Petty
“Diversity: Redefining ‘Good’,” Lighting Design + Application, April 2022, by Alana Shepherd
Redlining history: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/28/redlining-was-banned-50-years-ago-its-still-hurting-minorities-today/
NYPD Omnipresence: https://untappedcities.com/2018/03/07/cities-101-why-are-nypd-floodlights-illuminating-nyc-parks-and-housing-developments/
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne: https://www.dukeupress.edu/dark-matters
Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-justice
EquityXDesign: https://medium.com/equity-design/racism-and-inequity-are-products-of-design-they-can-be-redesigned-12188363cc6a
Illuminating Engineering Society DEIR initiative
International Dark Sky: Statement for Equity
Design for the Just City, Harvard Graduate School of Design
International Nighttime Design Initiative
Smart Outdoor Lighting Alliance
Black Unity in Lighting & Design
NAACP Guidelines for Equitable Community Involvement:
https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/naacp-offers-equity-toolkit-building-projects
and https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oT3vwrrkpvapek14IJwZjKIcKAJEzswt/view
Whitecross Estates Lighting Workshop
Chicago Smart Lighting Program:
https://chicagosmartlighting-chicago.opendata.arcgis.com/
and https://www.tedmagazine-digital.com/tedmagazine/utility_supplement_2019/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1517321#articleId1517321
“Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design” https://www.nber.org/papers/w25798
Light pollution is inequitable: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935120308549
Light pollution is a health hazard: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/outdoor-light-night-breast-cancer/
April 28, 2022 | CNN
Article about lighting for crime reduction. Quotes IDA director Ruskin Hartley while missing full picture on the equitable value of well-designed permanent luminaires instead of aggressive, unjust temporary floodlights; however, draws needed attention to the issue.
June 30, 2021 | New Yorker
Article and video take on the NYPD’s Omnipresence floodlighting tactic oppressing public housing residents.
Additional resources will be added on an ongoing basis.