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Electric Moons: A Social History of Street Lighting in Los Angeles

Electric Moons: A Social History of Street Lighting in Los Angeles

Mandelkern, India
Bertolotti, Tom

Hardcover

General ArchitectureGeneral DesignIndustrial Design

Publisher Price: $40.00

ISBN10: 1955125317
ISBN13: 9781955125314
Publisher: Hat & Beard Pr
Published: Jan 30 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.90
Height: 0.79 Width: 7.24 Depth: 9.45
Language: English
Los Angeles is famous for many things: its traffic jams, its taco trucks, the palm trees, the sunshine. Electric Moons: A Social History of Street Lighting in Los Angeles explores one of its most overlooked design legacies--its streetlights.
Today, we may not give streetlights much thought; after all, they're virtually everywhere. But Los Angeles was once known for its breadth of innovative designs: products of an active civic imagination and a well-timed real estate scramble. Much more than devices to illuminate the roads, streetlights helped instill senses of pride and place within a rapidly expanding metropolis, bringing the heavens to human scale. Timeless and modern, venerated and mundane, streetlights connected parochial interests to universal beliefs. They were public art before we had a name for it.

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