Download or read book Street Lighting Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Street and Highway Lighting written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brilliant written by Jane Brox and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light
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 Light written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Street Lighting Projects written by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Street Lighting written by John Myron Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Street Lighting written by J. M.. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Street Lighting written by William Sugg and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Street Lighting Projects written by James M. Tien and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trends in Street Lighting System Equipment written by EEI-NEMA Joint Committee on Standardization of Street Lighting Equipment and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ornamental Street lighting written by National Electric Light Association and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Street Lighting written by Arthur Hillyer Ford and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Street Lighting Classic Reprint written by J. M. Bryant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Street Lighting Many contracts are based upon the rates charged in cities of about the same size for the same class of service, regardless of the comparative operating cost of the installation in each case. Many companies do not compute the cost of any one particular branch of their service, but are satisfied if their total yearly balance shows a profit. Other companies, while knowing the cost of operation of the street lights, are still governed by the prevailing rate in Similar cities. Thus it is that some companies may furnish the light to the city streets at an actual loss, but are compensated for this loss by special privileges in other branches of the service. It is believed by the writers that fewer misunderstandings would arise between the consumer and the company if each branch of service received its proper compensation. This bulletin is also designed to show that the same type of light will not serve equally well for the illumination of all classes of city streets; and that certain accepted standard spacings of lights can never produce adequate and economical street illumination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Street Lights of the World written by Vicki Lynn Sauter and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street Lights of the World is the ultimate visual guide to this often overlooked architectural accessory. Most people never notice the street lights around them and cannot imagine why anyone would. Fortunately for us, someone did notice and has created a surprisingly interesting collection of photographs. The photographs are divided by country and, within the United States, they are further divided by state. Even a casual look at the book will bring an enjoyable discovery of how different shapes, materials and design can bring such different visual effects. Those who spend more time with the book will be amazed at how street lights differ around the world and across time. It highlights the range of variations that exist both in the standards and globes of street lights, and how those variations can enhance the environment. This collection was accumulated over thirty years and by many photographers, but it is presented not only in an understandable order, but in an attractive order. A short history of street lights precedes two hundred pages of illustrations.
Download or read book Street Lighting Projects written by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
