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Light Justice Outdoors
“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
“Omnipresence Weaponizes Light,” Light Justice, June 2022
“The Controversial Floodlights Illuminating New York City’s Public-Housing Developments,” The New Yorker, June 2021, article by David Kortava and video “Omnipresence” by Nadia Halgren
“Why are NYPD Floodlights Illuminating NYC Parks and Housing Developments?” Untapped New York, March 2018, by Jonah Inserra
“Nighttime lighting reduces crime but it’s not a one-size-fits all solution, study shows,” CNN, April 2022, by Peter Niceas
“Street Smarts: Chicago Smart Lighting Program,” TED magazine, 2019, by Susan Bloom
“Public Lighting and the Urban Wealth Gap,” Brown Political Review, February 2017, by Isabella Creatura
“Illuminating austerity: Lighting poverty as an agent and signifier of the Greek crisis,” European Urban Region Studies, July 2017, by Saska Petrova
Light Justice Indoors
“Achieving Equitable Indoor Lighting,” Lighting Design + Application, December 2023, by Edward Bartholomew, Mark Loeffler, and Lya Shaffer Osborn
Public Health Impacts
“These City Maps Show The Current Health Impacts Of Redlining From Decades Ago : Shots - Health News : NPR,” NPR, November 2020, by Maria Godoy
“Light Pollution Is Getting Worse Every Year. That’s Bad For Your Health, “ Time, November 2017, by Jerry Kluger
“Missing the Dark: Health Effects of Light Pollution,” Environmental Health Perspectives, January 2009, by Ron Chepesiuk
“Associations between artificial light at night and risk for thyroid cancer: A large US cohort study,” Cancer, February 2021, by Dong Zhang, Rena R. Jones, Peter James, Cari M. Kitahara, and Qian Xiao
“Light pollution inequities in the continental United States: A distributive environmental justice analysis,” Environmental Research, October 2020, by Shawna M. Nadybal, Timothy W. Collins, and Sara E. Grineski
“How racist 'redlining' gave rise to cancer clusters and other environmental injustices,” One Breath Partnership, January 2020, by Zoe Middleton
Design Justice Process
“Design Justice,” MIT Press, 2020, by Sasha Costanza-Chock
“Guidelines for Equitable Community Involvement in Building & Development Projects and Policies,” NAACP Centering Equity in the Sustainable Building Sector
“Improving Racial Equity Through Greener Design - Blueprint For Better,” AIA Blueprint for Better
“Racism and Inequity are Products of Design: They can be Redesigned,” Medium, 2016, EquityXDesign
Social & Environmental Equity
“Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness” Duke University Press, 2015, by Simone Browne
Dr. Robert Bullard: Father of Environmental Justice
“Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America,” University of Richmond, 2025
“EJNY: A Study of Environmental Justice Issues in New York City,” NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, 2023
“‘Safe Streets’ are not Safe for Black Lives,” Bloomberg, June 2020, by Destiny Thomas
“Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition,” Wired, July 2020, by Tawana Petty
“Tracked But Not Seen: The Fight Against Racist Surveillance,” Radical Discipleship reposted from Sojourners, March 2020, by Bill Wylie-Kellerman
“‘American Roads are Getting Deadlier,” NPR, March 2021, by Camila Domonosky
“Racist Housing Practices From The 1930s Linked To Hotter Neighborhoods Today,” NPR, January 2020, by Meg Anderson
“Opinion: Urbanism is Complicit in Infra-Structural Racism,” Streetsblog USA, July 2020, by Destiny Thomas
“We Need to Talk About Systemic Racism in Infrastructure,” Civil + Structural Engineer, April 2020, by Melissa Peneycad
“Equitable Building Electrification: Energizing Community Needs,” The Greenlining Institute, October 2019
“Ending global energy poverty - how can we do better?,” World Economic Forum, November 2019, by Ted Moss
“In Boston, Interactive Exhibit Brings Redlining Impact Home,” Next City, October 2019, by Sandra Larson
“HOLC “redlining” maps: The persistent structure of segregation and economic inequality,” National Community Reinvestment Coalition, March 2018, by Bruce Mitchell and Juan Franco
“Undesign the Redline,” designing the WE
“Racism and Inequity are Products of Design: They can be Redesigned,” Medium, 2016, EquityXDesign
“Race, Space, and Electric Power: Jim Crow and the 1934 North Carolina Rural Electrification Survey,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, January 2016, by Conor Harrison
“Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design,” National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2019, by Aaron Chalfin, Benjamin Hansen, Jason Lerner, and Lucie Parker