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The new lights of public parks make for mysteriously coloured nocturnal landscapes. These lights have been installed in order to prevent crime, they don't bring citizens together, instead they leave the park wondrously illuminated but absolutely deserted.
Urban parks are less occupied during the evening hours; these comunal spaces would be ideal for locals especially during hot summer evenings, when it could become a place in which to be refreshed by a breeze. Unfortunately, these places don't seem to have that attraction. People often prefer the artificial coolness of an electric fan or the colder air of air-conditioning facilities.
These enormous light structures were placed in urban parks to limit and hopefully eliminate criminal and illegal activities, which, perhaps, in turn, have forced these activities to take precedence in other places. However they haven't incentivised people to make use of these green spaces. The new lights have almost completely altered the perception of these areas.
The previous lighting system only illuminated pedestrian paths along where the lamps were built. Now, instead, large areas of the park, which would be dark places otherwise. are under the beam of these new lights.
This has somewhat assisted the "denaturalisation of artificial spaces" (under the assumption of a natural space). Groups of trees, lawns and football picthes emerge from darkness, allowing the observer to experience them from a different angle.
