The Lighting Plan: From a Sector-Specific Urbanistic Instrument to an Opportunity of Enhancement of the Urban Space for Improving Quality of Life

he urban space, its lighting, the environmental sustainability, the energy efficiency, the attention to public spending, the innovation and the optimization of public utility services, the light pollution, the energy and lighting upgrading of public lighting systems and – most importantly – the growth potential of urban living thanks to a new strategy for the cities of the future, the creation of efficient and effective smart cities: these are the themes that innervate the research whose results are presented in this article. These topics are very different from each other but share the urban space with the features of complexity and modernity. And it is on the city, on the urban space, that this study is directed on since, as De Seta writes “nowadays over half the global population lives in a city, and it is estimated that this percentage will rise to three quarters in 2050”