Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and industrious activities. Urban lighting is undergoing a revolution due to recent developments in lighting technology, and increased focus on sustainability and human-scaled environments. Cities of Light is expansive in coverage, spanning two centuries and touching on developments on six continents, without diluting its central focus on architectural and urban lighting. Covering history, geography, theory, and speculation in urban lighting, readers will have numerous points of entry into the book, finding it easy to navigate for a quick reference and or a coherent narrative if read straight through. 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. At a moment when the entire world is being reshaped by new lighting technologies and new design attitudes, the longer history of urban lighting remains fragmentary. Cities of Light aims to provide a global framework for historical studies of urban lighting and to offer a new perspective on the fast-moving developments of lighting today.

This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural geography and screen studies.

Bringing together a wide spectrum of urban contexts, Visualizing the City's diverse essays explore visual representations of urbanism and modernity reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.

Villa Wolf in Guben (now Gubin), built between 1925 and 1927, was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s first decidedly modern building. The residential building was destroyed at the end of the Second World War and in the immediate post-war period. The building practice of Mies van der Rohe – who is internationally known for his visionary glass skyscrapers and concrete buildings – remained conventional for a long time. With Villa Wolf, he presented a radical reinterpretation of the upper-class residential building: an open, diagonal sequence of rooms on the garden side, with the cubically-towered areas of the utility rooms and bedrooms next to it. The reception of the building was overshadowed by the great success of Mies van der Rohe’s successor buildings, such as the German Pavilion in Barcelona (1928–1929) and Villa Tugendhat in Brno (1929–1930). This volume presents the history of Villa Wolf in Gubin and documents the recent excavation of the basement as well as the graphic reconstruction as a prerequisite for the building’s reconstruction.

This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural geography and screen studies.

Bringing together a wide spectrum of urban contexts, Visualizing the City's diverse essays explore visual representations of urbanism and modernity reflected through the prism of global cultures using an engaging variety of methods and texts.

Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and industrious activities. Urban lighting is undergoing a revolution due to recent developments in lighting technology, and increased focus on sustainability and human-scaled environments. Cities of Light is expansive in coverage, spanning two centuries and touching on developments on six continents, without diluting its central focus on architectural and urban lighting. Covering history, geography, theory, and speculation in urban lighting, readers will have numerous points of entry into the book, finding it easy to navigate for a quick reference and or a coherent narrative if read straight through. 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. At a moment when the entire world is being reshaped by new lighting technologies and new design attitudes, the longer history of urban lighting remains fragmentary. Cities of Light aims to provide a global framework for historical studies of urban lighting and to offer a new perspective on the fast-moving developments of lighting today.

While Mies van der Rohe's pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona in 1929 went unnoticed by most of the visitors to the fairgrounds, contemporary critics enthusiastically hailed it as the most convincing statement of the Modern Age. This book presents 100 selected texts about this much discussed building, written then and now: from the opening speech by the Spanish king, to newspaper articles and private letters, voices of contemporary architects, architecture critics and historians, and even a text by artist Ai Weiwei, who created an installation in the outdoor area of the pavilion in 2010. Thus the history of this building's reception depicts a dazzling picture and inconceivable breadth, including statements by such eminent authors as Frank Lloyd Wright, Leonardo Benevolo, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman.

In der obstbaulichen Forschung standen wahrend vergangener Jahrzehnte technolo- gische und okonomische Arbeiten deutlich im Vordergrund. Es war notwendig, die Mechanisierung von Pflege und Ernte voranzutreiben, um ein V'bermaB an Handarbeit durch Maschinenarbeit zu ersetzen. Eine dem modernen Anbau entsprechende Lager- wirtschaft muBte vollig neu entwickelt werden. Aufgabe der physiologischen Forschung ist es schon heute, die Praxis in die Lage zu versetzen, iiber die optimale Gestaltung aller PflegemaBnahmen hochste Ertrage abzusichern, ohne die Baume dabei so zu belasten, daB das Ertragspotential iiberzogen wird und es dadurch zum Ertragswechsel kommt. Dariiber hinaus sind von den Ziich- tern mit Unterstiitzung der Physiologen neue Sorten mit hOherem Ertragspotential und groBerer Ertragssicherheit zu schaffen. Um diese Ziele zu erreichen, bedarf es mehr denn je eines umfassenden Wissens um die Vorgange der Pflanzenentwicklung und Ertragsbildung. 1m praktischen Anbau miissen durch geeignete MaBnahmen der Bodenpflege, der Diingung, der Zusatzbe- wasserung und durch den Einsatz von Wachstumsregulatoren Voraussetzungen flir hohe, stabile Ertrage und damit im Zusammenhang flir die zuverlassig ablaufende Bliitenbildung fUr die Ernte des nachsten Jahres geschaffen werden. Notwendige MaBnahmen lassen sich umso zielstrebiger durchflihren, je gefestigter das Wissen und dessen Nutzung bei der Planung des Komplexes der PflegemaBnahmen ist. Die allgemeinen Lehrbiicher flir den Obstbau beinhalten vorwiegend technologische MaBnahmen und Fragen der Standort- und Sortenwahl. ZUl' Physiologie der Ertrags- bildung konnen sie nur wenig aussagen, weil das den Rahmen produktionsbezogener Darstellungen sprengen wiirde. Unser Buch solI daher vorhandene Obstbaubiichel' keinesfalls ersetzen, dafUr aber umso mehr erganzen.