Immaterial architectures: Urban space and electric light

Download
Author
McQuire, SDate
2005-12-01Source Title
Space and CulturePublisher
Sage PublicationsUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
McQuire, ScottAffiliation
ArtsMetadata
Show full item recordDocument Type
Journal ArticleCitations
McQuire, S. (2005). Immaterial architectures: Urban space and electric light. Space and Culture, 8 (2), pp.126-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331204266372.Access Status
Open AccessDescription
C1 - Journal Articles Refereed
Abstract
Since its invention, electric lighting has had a decisive impact on the psychogeography of urban space. Concentrating on the period from 1880 to World War II, the author argues that electrical lighting has been a major factor in the emergence of modern urban environments, in which the traditional function of architecture as a stable ground has increasingly given way to a growing mutability of forms and fluidity of appearances. This tendency both paralleled and converged with the effects of modern media technologies such as cinema, contributing to the emergence of a new environment characterized by "relational space," in which the city is increasingly defined by the overlap of material and immaterial spatial regimes.
Keywords
Social Theory; Other Cinema and Electronic Arts ; Screen and Media Culture; The Creative Arts; Visual CommunicationExport Reference in RIS Format
Endnote
- Click on "Export Reference in RIS Format" and choose "open with... Endnote".
Refworks
- Click on "Export Reference in RIS Format". Login to Refworks, go to References => Import References