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Urban lighting in historic settlements: from quality lighting to cultural reinforcement

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... Small-scale historic urban settlements need special techniques and strategies to achieve quality lighting, cultural reinforcement, and tourist attraction. Kopanari, Sigala, & Skandali recommended the following techniques: wall-mounted floor washers with asymmetric light distribution, higher average illuminance levels in low-level lighting spaces, wallmounted luminaires with an asymmetrical beam, wall-mounted up-light in high-level positioning, landmarks to be highlighted with discreet illumination, and open spaces and squares to be illuminated with area diffuse lighting [15]. These techniques are important for achieving quality lighting, cultural reinforcement, and tourist attraction. ...
... Many researchers have agreed on the need for lighting design with respect to the different aspects of lighting. For example, some divided them into four main aspects: functional, physical, biological, and aesthetic, and others have only focused on certain aspects [15]. In contrast, refs. ...
... Furthermore, most papers have discussed the negative effect of using artificial light without a previous study, and most of the papers that suggest lighting designs have used light simulation programs, such as Relux software [10]. Dialux (5.8.0.39677) software, produced by DIAL, is the most popular software used for light simulation and was used by [12,15]. ...
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