Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination

ISBN-13: 9781138813915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 216 str.

Sandy Isenstadt; Dietrich Neumann; Margaret Maile Petty

Opis

This title provides an overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and industrious activities. With chapters written by respected scholars and highly-regarded contemporary practitioners, this book will delight students and practitioners of architectural and urban history, area and cultural studies, and lighting design professionals and the institutional and municipal authorities they serve.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Istanbul  Chapter 2: Boston  Chapter 3: London  Chapter 4: Paris  Chapter 5: Mumbai  Chapter 6: Buffalo Chapter 7: Los Angeles  Chapter 8: Blackpool  Chapter 9: Berlin  Chapter 10: Sao Paolo  Chapter 11: Lagos  Chapter 12: New York City  Chapter 13: Mexico City  Chapter 14: Buenos Aires  Chapter 15: Johannesburg  Chapter 16: Los Angeles  Chapter 17: Tokyo  Chapter 18: Shanghai  Chapter 19: Moscow  Chapter 20: Vienna  Chapter 21: Paris   Chapter 22: Washington, D.C.  Chapter 23: Sydney  Chapter 24: Yilan  Chapter 25: London  Chapter 26: Derby  Chapter 27: Hong Kong  Chapter 28: Huangzhou  Chapter 29: Berlin  Chapter 30: Oulu  Chapter 31: New York City

O autorze

Sandy Isenstadt teaches the history of modern architecture at the University of Delaware, USA.His writings range over topics as varied as postwar reformulations of modern architecture, visual perception in the built environment, landscape views, and American material culture.He is currently working on a book examining novel luminous spaces introduced by electric lighting in the twentieth century. Margaret Maile Petty is a senior lecturer in design history at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research broadly investigates the discourse, production, and representation of artificial light in the built environment, with a particular focus on architectural lighting and interiors. She has published broadly on the historical significance and development of lighting design in many academic journals and edited books.In addition, she regularly writes for leading lighting industry publications on a variety of contemporary issues, practices, and projects relevant to the discipline today. Dietrich Neumann is professor in the history of art and architecture at Brown University, USA. His research concentrates on late 19th and early 20th century European and American architecture. Neumann has published on the history of buildings materials, German skyscrapers of the 1920s, the history of film set design, and architectural illumination.