The impact of lighting and illumination on safety of the parks

This study attempts to investigate the role of park lighting in providing security and its role in deterring crime and corruption while emphasizing the need for light as one of the most important elements of urban landscapes. Park lighting is not a matter of decoration. It is rather a way to respond to our search for an advanced method of better provision of safety and comfort of an environment. Today, lighting defines the identity and the nighttime landscape of parks and the lack of light or darkness at night results in problems such as increased incidents, accidents, crime and delinquency and reduces social security. Humans are susceptible to conditions. An important part of these conditions are imposed on them in the form of environmental conditions. The five senses form their most important links with the surrounding environment and of the five senses, sight is of utmost importance. The major information and data around us includes things that we see. From a psychological point of view, the method of lightning in an environment has a very decisive role in how we act and react. Therefore, the knowledge of light and its effect on individuals can lead to a conscious attitude towards the design of human environment. Light is the clearest, softest and easiest existing structural material which determines the quality of the human environment. It enhances the safety of parks and increases the park users at night. (C) 2016 IASE Publisher. All rights reserved.