How the humble streetlight can make Los Angeles a better city (via latimesopinion)
By 1909, the website CityLab recently reported, the early urban theorist Charles Mulford Robinson was waxing poetic about Los Angeles’ lighting system. “The lights are so fine,” he wrote, “the effects on the city so beautiful and so rare in this country, that they deserve all the protection and development you can give them.”
In all, Los Angeles has more than 220,000 streetlights, of varying designs. Since the 1950s, the city has relied on a standard aluminum pole with arching arm and, recently, an LED fixture — so utilitarian, it makes my father’s argument without even trying.There’s a reason for the simplicity: After World War II, Los Angeles sprawled.
Reinventing the public right of way in Los Angeles — that’s a lot to hang on streetlights. But it is a key aspect of the city’s design competition. The contest wish list suggests that revamped lamps and lampposts might provide, along with illumination, a way to “accommodate” hardware for shade sails and solar panels, air quality and traffic monitors, and 4G and 5G antennas.
At the same time, I’m drawn to the conceit that streetlights might become “hat racks” for the city, utilitarian in an unexpected way. Take those shade sails as an example — a necessity in a city where, the mayor recently acknowledged, “shade is an equity issue.”
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