The areas of Porta Palazzo and Borgo Dora have been the subject of a preliminary study on public lighting in compliance with modern criteria guaranteeing personal safety, creation of a nocturnal image of city locations, rediscovery of urban space, contribution to improving urban space. The study, which places great attention on overall quality and seeks to offer different solutions with respect to the exclusive performance-oriented character of the current system, has as its primary objective that of not limiting itself to having a certain number of lighting units on the road in relation to a certain value of illumination to be achieved on the basis of regulatory standards, but to see light as an added value for improved environmental quality.

The General Lighting Project for the Area of "The Gate" Porta Palazzo Project includes:

• Area projects: these concern the designing of lighting systems in homogenous areas e.g. the areas of Borgo Dora, San Gioachino, Cottolengo, Arsenale
• Street projects: these are projects involving streets prevalently used by vehicles such as the central lane of C.so Giulio Cesare and C.so II febbraio
• Point projects: these are projects that concentrate on an urban location enhancing its architectonic and/or historic value.

• October 1999 handover of the General Lighting Project for the Area of "The Gate" Porta Palazzo Project.
• Overall sum 75,000 euro equal to 145 million lireOf which 60,000 euro (80%) from "The Gate" Porta Palazzo Project and 15,000 euro (20%) from AEM
• AEM Azienda Energetica Metropolitana SpA
  www.aem.torino.it
  Call Center 800979797
  mail aemrisponde@aem.torino.it

Corso Giulio Cesare
San Pietro in Vincoli
Canale Molassi

Some copies of the General Lighting Project for the Area of "The Gate" Porta Palazzo Project can be consulted at the offices of "The Gate" Project.