Environmental identity: “space” vs “place”

Abstract

The article considers the problem of environmental identity, which is one of the most important criteria for the quality of the city's light environment. It is argued that a city’s sustainable development means creating conditions for the process of identifying its inhabitants, transforming the concept of the city as a "space" into the concept of the city as a “place”. There are a number of important socio-cultural trends that form the lighting culture of the modern city.