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![The Essential, Invisible Night: Illuminating Cities for Essential Workers](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/687bad_2437843e57d3430193799f2b3c2d7737~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/687bad_2437843e57d3430193799f2b3c2d7737~mv2.webp)
Leni Schwendinger
Jun 3, 20234 min read
The Essential, Invisible Night: Illuminating Cities for Essential Workers
The architectural and urban design professions are day-biased, even as night is a full 50% of the world’s time. My years of work as an...
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Leni Schwendinger
May 22, 20231 min read
 NYCxDESIGN & LightFair Present
Future Directions for Urban Space at Night, a panel conversation exploring ways that urban lighting activates public space after dark....
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Leni Schwendinger
Aug 26, 20181 min read
Best of Nighttime Design: Elaborated by Voice, Writing and Video
Celebrating one year of formation, since August 2017, key members of the Smart Everyday Nighttime Design research team have discussed and...
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Leni Schwendinger
Dec 20, 20172 min read
City Lights, Nighttime Design: the future of night, a spirited video, an international collaboration
A research-based, prototype pilot, blossoms with citizen participation. Skim to last image for 6-minute video Urban design often neglects...
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Leni Schwendinger
Dec 7, 20171 min read
Nighttime Design: Long Listen, Short Listen
The night has the power to invoke a myriad of emotions — from fear to romance, melancholy to excitement. Whatever your feelings, the fact...
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Leni Schwendinger
Apr 11, 20173 min read
Inventing Nighttime Design
Nighttime design and its concomitant Shades of Night analysis were born out of the NightSeeingâ„¢ Program During the dark hours, a nexus of...
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Leni Schwendinger
Apr 7, 20171 min read
El-space recognition from Fast Company
Link here for Design Trust for Public Space updates on Under the Elevated, Phase 2
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Leni Schwendinger
Mar 30, 20161 min read
Envisioning the future of public space illumination – Looking back at looking forward, part one
In 2001, for their 20th anniversary issue Metropolis magazine’s back page featured several architects’ and designers’ quick visions for...
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Leni Schwendinger
Mar 16, 20161 min read
El-Space: first, the after-dark site study
It was cold, it was dark…normal site study conditions. Arup staff and I braved the night with cameras, illuminance meters, laser...
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Leni Schwendinger
Jul 23, 20151 min read
Leni’s eclectic nighttime design bibliography, part 2
Nightwalking, A Nocturnal History of London, by Matthew Beaumont. The book arrived bedside and surely it “…shines a light on the shadowy...
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Leni Schwendinger
Apr 19, 20151 min read
Leni’s eclectic nighttime design bibliography
Do you read? Here, this list is for you:Â publications on urban design, historical light, stories of sleep, nocturnal narratives, the...
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Leni Schwendinger
Mar 22, 20152 min read
Nighttime Design Has its Day
Here, the Arup description: “In the past, the attitude of ‘the more light the better’ has led to a general abundance of light, especially...
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