The Geography of Public Lighting in Arab Cities

Éric Verdeil (1)

1 EVS - Environnement, Ville, Société

Recent research shows that lighting in cities has become a salient public policy issue. I will argue here that this is also the case in numerous cities in the Arab world, using some original field observations and raising several research issues--namely the inequalities of service provision in urban areas, citizens' claims for lighting and how this issue is put on municipal agendas, and who pays service costs, at a time of increasing energy needs, and pressure for electricity savings.

Mots clés: cities; Arab world; lighting; urbanism; planning; urban policy

Domaines: Géographie; Architecture, aménagement de l'espace

Éric Verdeil. The Geography of Public Lighting in Arab Cities. Jadaliyya, 2013, pp.1. ⟨halshs-00871744⟩