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    Immaterial architectures: Urban space and electric light

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    Author
    McQuire, S
    Date
    2005-12-01
    Source Title
    Space and Culture
    Publisher
    Sage Publications
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    McQuire, Scott
    Affiliation
    Arts
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    Document Type
    Journal Article
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    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 Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/25254
    DOI
    10.1177/1206331204266372
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    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 Communication

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