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Cities of Light and Heat
Author | : Mark H. Rose |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271039800 |
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Cities of Light and Heat takes us to Kansas City and Denver during the late nineteenth century when gas and electricity were introduced to these &"instant cities&" of the west. With rich detail, Mark Rose shows how the new technology spread during the next century from a few streets and businesses within the city limits to countless private homes in the suburbs. In Kansas City and Denver, as in most communities throughout the U.S., business executives, city leaders, and engineers acted as early promoters of the new technology. But by the early 1900s educators, home builders, architects, and salespersons were becoming increasingly important as gas and electric utilities and appliances reached more and more American homes. But these voices for the new technology brought with them their own social attitudes and cultural values. By mid-century, whether in the classroom or in advertisements, Americans were regularly encouraged to fit the new technology within prevailing notions of cleanliness, comfort, convenience, and gender. Although in hindsight the spread of modern technology might seem inevitable to us, Rose shows how even the leaders of the nation's great gas and electric corporations with their vast production and distribution facilities were subject to geography, competing ideologies, urban politics, and even the choices of ordinary consumers. Rose thus locates the driving force behind the diffusion of technology in the neighborhoods, kitchens, and offices of the city. Cities of Light and Heat shows the importance of culture, politics, and urban growth in shaping technological change in the cities of North America.
Cities of Light
Author | : Sandy Isenstadt,Margaret Maile Petty,Dietrich Neumann |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2014-12-17 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781317602538 |
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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.
Typical Net Monthly Bills for Electric Service in Effect in Cities of 50 000 Population Or More
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Electric utilities |
ISBN | : OSU:32435072882681 |
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Cities of the Future
Author | : Mady Mohamed,Asmaa Ibrahim,Mohamed Fekry |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2023-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783031154607 |
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This book seeks to address the key challenges and opportunities of "future cities" embracing novel approaches and grounded technologies in pursuing a vision for smart, inclusive cities. The objective of this book is to discuss multiple areas at the local, national, and international levels and how these challenges can hinder the development objectives planned to be achieved by the cities of the future. The chapters featured in this collection were presented at the 6th Memaryat International Conference (MIC 2022), held at the Effat University, Jeddah. MIC’s objective is to build bridges between science, technology, and innovation, seen as the key levers of attaining the SDGs. This book provides the most innovative ideas presented at the conference to address the key manifestation of “future cities" to embrace novel approaches and grounded technologies in the pursue of a vision for smart inclusive cities. It thus represents a platform for diverse contributions from academics and practitioners to present their different perspectives addressed theoretically as well as in practice concerning the challenges and opportunities of future cities. This includes contributions from decision-makers, architects, urban planners, urban designers, entrepreneurs, and educators to stimulate discussion covering the latest on the challenges and opportunities for better future cities in the different domains of architecture, building science and technology, environmental design, mobility & infrastructure, urban design & landscape, housing & real estate developments, urban planning, governance, socio-cultural & economic development, community engagement, tourism and heritage revitalization.
Secret Cities of Old South America
Author | : Harold T. Wilkins |
Publsiher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781605203218 |
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Monstrous beasts, lost worlds, vanished civilizations, Amazon warriors, even Atlantis and Noahs ark figure in this wondrous and rare book. Hard to find in print before now, this obscure 1952 work is an artifact itself, of the postwar fascination with all things mysterious, from flying saucers to ancient astronauts to the third eye. In this wildly entertainingand more than a little bit preposterousdocument, Wilkins takes us from mountain jungles to unexplored swamps on a search for the hidden secrets of old South America. Seekers after the arcane and fans of the paranormal will delight in this odd and extraordinary volume. British journalist and historian HAROLD T. WILKINS (18911960) is also the author of Mysteries of Ancient South America (1945) and Mysteries of Time and Space (1958).
Street Lighting Service Cities of 50 000 Population and More
Author | : United States. Federal Power Commission |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Municipal lighting |
ISBN | : UCBK:C006191388 |
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The Western Historical Quarterly
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
ISBN | : MINN:31951P00613093J |
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Light Heat and Power
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Gas manufacture and works |
ISBN | : UOM:39015080180204 |
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