From Illumination to Identity:A Research on the Evolution and Development of Urban Lighting
Focusing on four historical periods(early period,recent period,modern period and present period),the paper starts from multi-dimensional perspectives of light source technique,application scenario,night life,and urban space to sort out the role and function evolution process of lighting of different periods in city nighttime,and examines its evolution features.On this basis,it summarizes three turns of urban night lighting(e.g.space turning,public turning and function turning),and interprets the development status and trend of artistry,mediatization and intelligence of lighting in contemporary urban night.Overall,the expansion of urban space and innovation of digital technology will grant lighting with more powerful expressions and more diversified functions at night.