Perspectives

With understandable calls to protect precious biodiversity and even initiatives to ‘re-wild’ areas where human development has upset the balance between humans and nature, lighting is beginning to be recognised as a key factor deserving a reappraisal.

For solutions to scale and have a tangible effect on cities as a whole, we need to think broadly about how architecture, landscape and public realm design elements can contribute to net zero in an integrated fashion.

Reimagining how we design and build for greater sustainability and circularity is critical to addressing the climate crisis, and cities around the world are increasingly leveraging policy and strategy to advance the transition.