Urban illumination has great importance for reasons such as exhibiting the beauty of the city, facilitating night life, emphasizing important functional, aesthetic, historical and social spaces and works of art in terms of the city, besides the city's importance for safety. In areas where urban illumination is going to be examined, an assessment system needs to be established to identify urban elements and identify the items that need priority clarification. Some criteria have been established such as transportation status, architectural value or characteristics, historical value and urban silhouette influence, speed, traffic density, traffic pattern, environmental illumination, visual guidance on the road; for the identification of buildings, the engineering works, the works of art, the areas such as parks and squares and the roads with priority. According to the characteristics of these criteria, numerical values were given to each item. Each urban element will be classified as 1st, 2nd and 3rd class according to these numerical values. Thus, urban elements in the region will be determined in the order of priority in illumination.  

Keywords - lighting, city lighting, lighting master plan

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