TY  - JOUR
AU  - McQuire, S
Y2  - 2014/05/21
Y1  - 2005/12/01
SN  - 1206-3312
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/25254
AB  - 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.
N1  - application/pdf
LA  - en
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Social Theory; Other Cinema and Electronic Arts ; Screen and Media Culture; The Creative Arts; Visual Communication
T1  - Immaterial architectures: Urban space and electric light
DO  - 10.1177/1206331204266372
IS  - Space and Culture: the journal
VL  - 8
IS  - 2
SP  - 126-140
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/25254/67610_00003979_01_McQuire014.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
ER  -