Download or read book City of Electric Moons written by India Mandelkern and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Electric Moons: A Social History of Street Lighting in Los Angeles is an illustrated history of streetlights and their impact on the urban environment. Los Angeles is known for many things: the traffic jams, the taco trucks, the palm trees, the sunshine. City of Electric Moons: A Social History of Street Lighting in Los Angeles explores one of its most overlooked architectural legacies--its streetlights. Today, we may not give streetlights much thought; after all, they're virtually everywhere. But Los Angeles was once known for its breadth of innovative designs: products of an active civic imagination and a well-timed real estate scramble. Much more than devices to illuminate the roads, streetlights helped instill a sense of pride and place within a rapidly expanding metropolis, bringing the heavens down to human scale. Timeless and modern, venerated and mundane, streetlights harnessed everyday interests to universal beliefs. They were public art before there was a name for it. In City of Electric Moons, India Mandelkern examines the art and politics of street lighting in Los Angeles from the 1880s to the present day. Flitting between social history, cultural anthropology, urban studies, and the history of design, she illustrates how street lighting helped frame larger debates about civics and surveillance, infrastructure and traffic, the definition of public space and who should have access to it. Interweaving her narrative with the politicians, planners, preservationists, artists, and dreamers who have given them meaning, Mandelkern argues for the streetlight's vitality to urban life: a totem for the modern era.
Download or read book Electric Moons Los Angeles Streetlamp History written by India Mandelkern and published by Hat & Beard Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles is famous for many things: its traffic jams, its taco trucks, the palm trees, the sunshine. Electric Moons: A Social History of Street Lighting in Los Angeles explores one of its most overlooked design legacies--its streetlights. Today, we may not give streetlights much thought; after all, they're virtually everywhere. But Los Angeles was once known for its breadth of innovative designs: products of an active civic imagination and a well-timed real estate scramble. Much more than devices to illuminate the roads, streetlights helped instill senses of pride and place within a rapidly expanding metropolis, bringing the heavens to human scale. Timeless and modern, venerated and mundane, streetlights connected parochial interests to universal beliefs. They were public art before we had a name for it. In Electric Moons, India Mandelkern examines the art and politics of street lighting in Los Angeles from the 1880s to the present day. Flitting between social history, cultural anthropology, urban studies, and the history of design, she illustrates how street lighting helped frame larger debates about civics and surveillance, infrastructure and traffic, the definition of public space and who should have access to it. Through her own conversations with the politicians, planners, preservationists, artists, and dreamers who have given them meaning, Mandelkern argues for the streetlight's vitality to urban life: a totem for the modern era.
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Download or read book Annual Reports of the Various City Officers of the City of Minneapolis Minnesota written by Minneapolis (Minn.) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Culture written by Jillian Porter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice. Chronologically arranged chapters explain how nineteenth-century ideas about energy informed realist novels and paintings; how the poetics of energy defined pre-Revolutionary and Stalinist utopianism; and how fossil fuels, electricity, and nuclear fission generated distinct aesthetic features in Imperial Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet literature, cinema, and landscape. The volume’s concentration on Russia responds to a clear need to understand the role the country plays in social, political, and economic processes endangering life on Earth today. The cultural dimension of Russia’s efforts at energy dominance deserves increased scholarly attention not only in its own right, but also because it directly affects global energy policy. As the contributors to this volume argue, the nationally inflected cultural myths that underlie human engagements with energy have been highly consequential in the Anthropocene.
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