This portion of the North Loop project focused on analyzing one particular element of the public realm. My element was lighting and specifically lighting fixtures. To narrow the scope of this project, I focused specifically on contrasting highway- and street-scale lighting.

My first board shows six examples of common lighting typologies across the North Loop corridor and surrounding local streets. The locations are shown on the context map in the bottom left corner. These six examples fall into one of two categories: highway lighting and street lighting. Features of each lighting type are highlighted, such as brightness, color, and range. In general, highway lighting is harsher, has a larger range, and is not fit for a local street.

My second board includes a cross-section of street- and highway-scale lighting, an intervention, and a lighting map of the North Loop. The cross-section shows the difference in scale between the lighting types, including a person, a car, and a semi for scale. The lighting map identifies the two types of lighting across a map of the North Loop corridor and surrounding local streets. Note the red outline around a section of 6th St, immediately south of the North Loop trench, that has highway-scale lighting.

My intervention, shown under the Proposed heading, is to replace the lighting on the side of the street with a sidewalk to smaller, street-scale lighting. I believe this, along with sidewalk improvements, would be an effective short-term intervention to improve the pedestrian experience near the North Loop.