How and when did astronomers begin to understand access to the #night sky as a human right? And what are the implications of doing so? 🌌 Read chapter 3 of my forthcoming book, #TransformingNight! #LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Darkness #LightJustice

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Urban Nightscapes and the Anthropocene

Pritchard argues that nightscape is both a useful and important analytic category for environmental as well as urban historians.

NiCHE
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Transforming Night

Who owns the nightβ€”and what is lost as we flood it with light, worldwide?Darkness has become legibleβ€”and contested. Blending archival narrative with on-t...

University of Washington Press