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City Lights: Illuminating the American Night (Landscapes of the Night)

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 | #2462340 in Books |  The Johns Hopkins University Press |  2001-07-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.03 x6.26 x9.25l, | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Lite Lights|By Randall L. Wilson|What attracted me to this book was understanding how changes in lighting technology impacted urbanization. However, this book is more about how lighting was a critical aspect to the development of urbanization. And even on that score the book doesn’t deliver.

“City Lights” is divided up into two basic parts; the de| ||"Jakle's primary goal is to tell, or remind, us that landscapes are different at night and have been changed by the introduction of lighting... Highly readable, incredibly informative." -- James D. Lowry, Jr., Professional Geographer

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Today's cities shine brightly at night, illuminated by millions of street lamps, neon signs, and incandescent and fluorescent bulbs burning in the windows of office blocks, apartment buildings, and homes. Indeed, the modern city is in large part defined by this brilliance. In contrast, cities before the end of the 19th century were dominated by shadows and darkness, their oil lamps mostly ineffectual against the night. The introduction of modern lighting technologies ...

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