Urban Lighting & Space Design

Course Description
More than 80% of the US population lives in an urban environment. Vibrant and dense communities. Within those cities, humans have lost their significance within urban spaces to the need for infrastructures dedicated to vehicular traffic. This session will focus on how the city of Denver – pioneers of the urban pedestrian mall concept – have reimagined the 16th Street Mall and the approach to lighting the space to better address the needs of the human inhabitants
using the space.

Objectives
At the end of this program, participants will know:
• Explore the original lighting design of the 16th Street Mall and the goals that were set in place for both day and nighttime space activation.
• Discuss the evolution of the 16th Street Mall and how both the lighting design and the luminaire itself have changed which has led to significant repercussions for space.
• Discuss the approach that was taken to reinvigorate and energize the pedestrian mall space and how the new luminaire design needed to work within the space to accomplish these goals.
• Examine the impacts that this new lighting design has on the space and how it will continue to evolve over time and what the future holds for this pedestrian space.
• Discuss how the 16th Street Mall, an early adopter of a pedestrian mall, has set the precedent for other pedestrian centric spaces.

Landscape Forms is a registered provider with the American Institute of Architects Continuing
Education Systems (AIA/CES). Credit(s) earned on completion of this program will be reported
to AIA/CES for AIA members. Certificates of completion for both AIA members and non-AIA
members are available upon request.

This program is registered with AIA/CES and ASLA/LACES for continuing professional
education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or construed to be an
approval or endorsement by the AIA or ASLA of any material of construction or any method or
manner of handling, using, distributing, or dealing in any material or product.