通过整体的城市照明规划，一二线城市一跃跻身于城市设计的前列。作为国内外城市的形象，城市照明设计的需求包含凸显城市独特内涵，并呈现出城市的魅力夜景。然而，有时一些地产的开发商则会由于一些因素而放弃原有的设计要求。
例如，针对天津金融区的建筑，既能把握好灯光亮度与光线方向，又避免使用上照灯，从而为人们营造一种清晰的视觉效果，同时又使得这些建筑保持了自身特色。
虽然风格一致的整体城市规划可促进一个地区的发展，然而上海世博会的照明规划中要求所有建筑中至少有两个立面照明呈现不同的两种色温，这样缩小了照明设计师想要通过照明使得建筑呈现独特性的发挥空间。
不过，考虑到多种可理解的因素，地产开发商或是业主还是愿意承担风险而不按照明规划的要求去做。
比如，由于预算问题，地产开发商会继续使用普通的、价格较为便宜的上照射灯，而非采用昂贵、最新的LED技术。另外一些地产开发商会更倾向于在所有立面上使用统一的色温，同时在不使用色彩丰富的LED 的情况下也能呈现出建筑独特性的一面。
当一个建筑与其照明成为夜景的标识时，无论采用何种色温，动态或静止，一旦改变他的状态，业主、设计师以及公众将会觉得别扭，因为它已成为一种习惯，天黑时打亮，晚上10点时熄灭。另一方面，有时则与此情况相反：在北京长安街上的一些建筑则采用独特的照明，其照明设计回归传统，采用统一的方式打亮屋顶。
独特就是成为与众不同。如果生活是一成不变的，一切将显得枯燥乏味。
First and second-tier cities have a chance to be at the forefront of urban design with an integrated lighting planning into urban planning. Being the face of a city at home and abroad, those requirements, most of them making sense, do shape the urban nightscape makeup. But sometime, property developers take other considerations to whether follow or not those requirements.
For instance, controlling both the brightness and direction of light and at the same time banning the usage of uplight projectors is a way to help keeping a clear view to the shining stars in the new financial district of Tianjin while allowing buildings to be unique.
Although it is understandable to keep a district being developed with an overall integral planning, the Shanghai Expo area lighting planning requires all buildings to uniformly have the different two color temperatures on at least two of the façades, leaving little room to lighting creativity to uniquely distinguish one building from another.
Nevertheless, for various understandable reasons, property developers or owners may at their own risks overrun the requirements of the lighting planning.
For budgetary reasons, a property developer may still consider installing common and affordable uplight projectors instead of using overall more expensive up-to-date LED technology. Another property developer may prefer to keep the same color temperature on all of its facades but still keeping the uniqueness of the architecture while refraining from using colorful LEDs.
Once a building together with its lighting has become an icon of a nightscape, not matter what color temperatures used, how dynamic or calm, its owners, its designers and the public may find it uncomfortable to change a lighting that has been integrated into a daily custom being turned on as night falls and usually off around 22:00. On the other hand, some time it is the reverse: some buildings with unique lighting on the Beijing Changan Avenue have turned back to a traditional lighting design, all having uniform roof dotted lights.
Being different is what makes one noticeably stand out from the rest. How boring would life be without variety.
