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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.
How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what
still might be Whether looking inward to the intricacies of
human anatomy or outward to the furthest recesses of the universe,
expanding the boundaries of human inquiry depends to a surprisingly
large degree on the making of models. In this wide-ranging volume,
scholars from diverse fields examine the interrelationships between
a model’s material foundations and the otherwise invisible things
it gestures toward, underscoring the pivotal role of models in
understanding and shaping the world around us. Whether in the form
of reproductions, interpretive processes, or constitutive tools,
models may bridge the gap between the tangible and the abstract. By
focusing on the material aspects of models, including the digital
ones that would seem to displace their analogue forebears, these
insightful essays ground modeling as a tactile and emphatically
humanistic endeavor. With contributions from scholars in the
history of science and technology, visual studies, musicology,
literary studies, and material culture, this book demonstrates that
models serve as invaluable tools across every field of cultural
development, both historically and in the present day. Modelwork is
unique in calling attention to modeling’s duality, a dynamic
exchange between imagination and matter. This singular publication
shows us how models shape our ability to ascertain the surrounding
world and to find new ways to transform it. Contributors:
Hilary Bryon, Virginia Tech; Johanna Drucker, UCLA; Seher ErdoÄźan
Ford, Temple U; Peter Galison, Harvard U; Lisa Gitelman, New York
U; Reed Gochberg, Harvard U; Catherine Newman Howe, Williams
College; Christopher J. Lukasik, Purdue U; Martin Scherzinger, New
York U; Juliet S. Sperling, U of Washington; Annabel Jane Wharton,
Duke U.
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.
The degree to which shopping, or, more broadly, consumerism, is
both critiqued and defended in American society confirms the role
that commercial goods play in our daily lives. This collection of
essays provides case studies depicting selected aspects of this
engaging activity. The authors include several historians with
diverging specialties: an art historian, an anthropologist, an
environmental journalist, a geographer and urban planner, and
practicing artists. Each author demonstrates how a material culture
perspective—a focus on the relationship between people and their
things—can illuminate a specific corner of consumption.
Connecting the essays are concerns about the spaces in which
shopping occurs; about the experience of shopping itself, both
individual and social; and about its economic, environmental, and
personal downsides. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how a
material culture perspective on shopping yields insights into
multiple aspects of American culture. Published by University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University
Press. Â
This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length
treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle
East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century
to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and on to
present-day Iraq, the essays cohere around the historical encounter
between the politics of nation-building and architectural
modernism's new materials, methods, and motives. Architecture, as
physical infrastructure and as symbolic expression, provides an
exceptional window onto the powerful forces that shaped the modern
Middle East and that continue to dominate it today. Experts in this
volume demonstrate the political dimensions of both creating the
built environment and, subsequently, inhabiting it. In revealing
the tensions between achieving both international relevance and
regional meaning, Modernism in the Middle East affords a dynamic
view of the ongoing confrontations of deep traditions with rapid
modernization. Political and cultural historians, as well as
architects and urban planners, will find fresh material here on a
range of diverse practices.
Sandy Isenstadt examines how architects, interior designers, and
landscape designers worked to enhance spatial perception in middle
class houses visually. The desire for spaciousness reached its
highest pitch where it was most lacking, in the small,
single-family houses that came to be the cornerstone of middle
class life in the nineteenth century. In direct conflict with
actual dimensions, spaciousness was linked to a tension unique to
the middle class - between spatial aspirations and financial
limitations. Although rarely addressed in a sustained fashion by
theorists and practitioners, and the inhabitants of houses
themselves, Isenstadt argues that spaciousness was central to the
development of modern American domestic architecture, with explicit
strategies for perceiving space being pivotal to modern house
design. Through professional endorsement, concern for visual space
found its way into discussion of real estate and law.
How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what
still might be Whether looking inward to the intricacies of human
anatomy or outward to the furthest recesses of the universe,
expanding the boundaries of human inquiry depends to a surprisingly
large degree on the making of models. In this wide-ranging volume,
scholars from diverse fields examine the interrelationships between
a model's material foundations and the otherwise invisible things
it gestures toward, underscoring the pivotal role of models in
understanding and shaping the world around us. Whether in the form
of reproductions, interpretive processes, or constitutive tools,
models may bridge the gap between the tangible and the abstract. By
focusing on the material aspects of models, including the digital
ones that would seem to displace their analogue forebears, these
insightful essays ground modeling as a tactile and emphatically
humanistic endeavor. With contributions from scholars in the
history of science and technology, visual studies, musicology,
literary studies, and material culture, this book demonstrates that
models serve as invaluable tools across every field of cultural
development, both historically and in the present day. Modelwork is
unique in calling attention to modeling's duality, a dynamic
exchange between imagination and matter. This singular publication
shows us how models shape our ability to ascertain the surrounding
world and to find new ways to transform it. Contributors: Hilary
Bryon, Virginia Tech; Johanna Drucker, UCLA; Seher Erdogan Ford,
Temple U; Peter Galison, Harvard U; Lisa Gitelman, New York U; Reed
Gochberg, Harvard U; Catherine Newman Howe, Williams College;
Christopher J. Lukasik, Purdue U; Martin Scherzinger, New York U;
Juliet S. Sperling, U of Washington; Annabel Jane Wharton, Duke U.
This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length
treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle
East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century
to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and on to
present-day Iraq, the essays cohere around the historical encounter
between the politics of nation-building and architectural
modernism's new materials, methods, and motives. Architecture, as
physical infrastructure and as symbolic expression, provides an
exceptional window onto the powerful forces that shaped the modern
Middle East and that continue to dominate it today. Experts in this
volume demonstrate the political dimensions of both creating the
built environment and, subsequently, inhabiting it. In revealing
the tensions between achieving both international relevance and
regional meaning, Modernism in the Middle East affords a dynamic
view of the ongoing confrontations of deep traditions with rapid
modernization. Political and cultural historians, as well as
architects and urban planners, will find fresh material here on a
range of diverse practices.
The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question:
how do we study material culture when the objects of study are
transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist
the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and
archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful
collections. What holds these disparate things together here are
the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of
its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive
archive. Scattered matter then becomes fixed within each
author’s analytical framework rather than within the walls of an
archive’s reading room or in cases along a museum corridor. This
book follows the ways in which objects may be identified, gathered,
arranged, conceptualized and even displayed rather than by
“discovering” artifacts in an archive and then asking how they
came to be there. The authors approach material culture outside the
traditional bounds of learning about the past. Their essays are
varied not only in subject matter but also in narrative format and
conceptual reach, making the volume accessible and easy to navigate
for a quick reference or, if read straight through, build toward a
new way to think about material culture.
Sandy Isenstadt examines how architects, interior designers, and
landscape designers worked to enhance spatial perception in middle
class houses visually. The desire for spaciousness reached its
highest pitch where it was most lacking, in the small,
single-family houses that came to be the cornerstone of middle
class life in the nineteenth century. In direct conflict with
actual dimensions, spaciousness was linked to a tension unique to
the middle class - between spatial aspirations and financial
limitations. Although rarely addressed in a sustained fashion by
theorists and practitioners, and the inhabitants of houses
themselves, Isenstadt argues that spaciousness was central to the
development of modern American domestic architecture, with explicit
strategies for perceiving space being pivotal to modern house
design. Through professional endorsement, concern for visual space
found its way into discussion of real estate and law.
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