本指南来自CIE技术委员会TC 5-06，旨在提供如何使用外部照明装饰夜间城市景观的信息。在城市环境中的许多照明应用中，本指南涉及那些具有纯粹审美和装饰目的的应用。这种照明可以每晚使用，就像纪念碑、公共艺术、商业建筑的照明一样，或者只在节日或公众集会时定期使用。本指南还涉及自然场所、公园和花园的照明。交通或公共安全的永久照明，虽然会影响城市夜间环境的质量，但在指南中没有涉及。 本指南为外部照明设计师提供了工具，为城市建筑师提供了想法。对于那些必须做出支出决定的人，本指南解释了将户外美化与经济节能的装饰照明相结合的可能性。本指南是为非专家读者编写的，他们只对主题的广泛技术细节感兴趣，并且希望能够理解专家可能会告诉他的内容。该出版物共有74页，37个图表和2个表格。

The purpose of this Guide from CIE Technical Committee TC 5-06 is to provide information on how to use exterior lighting for the decoration of the night-time urban landscape. Of the many applications of lighting in an urban environment, this Guide deals with those having a purely aesthetic and decorative purpose. Such lighting can be used every night, as is often the case in the lighting of monuments, public art, commercial buildings, or used only periodically on the occasion of a festival or public gathering. The lighting of natural sites, parks, and gardens is also dealt with in this Guide. Permanent lighting for traffic or public safety, although affecting the quality of a city's night time ambience, is not dealt with in the Guide. This Guide provides tools for the exterior lighting designer and ideas for the town architect. For those who have to make the decisions on expenditure, this Guide explains the possibilities of combining outdoor beautification with economical and energy friendly decorative lighting.This Guide is written for the non-expert reader who is interested only in the broad technicalities of the subject and who wishes to be able to understand what an expert may tell him.The publication contains 74 pages, 37 figures and 2 tables.