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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Fluorescent Probes and Sensors" that was published in Sensors.

Fluorescent lighting.

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Lighting. --- Lighting --- Architectural and decorative.

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La 4e de couverture indique : "Nous ne sommes pas faits pour les ténèbres. La nuit, c'est le royaume des revenants, des illusions, des chimères et du désordre. A l'inverse, dans nos imaginaires, la lumière est principe de vie, parfois meme de vérité, et l'aube, promesse de renaissance. Aussi la domestication de la lumière, de la flamme a l'électricité en passant par le gaz, s'annoncait-elle comme un progrès technique et social décisif: la conquête de la nuit inaugura l'ère de la modernité, offrant aux hommes un moyen d'assurer leur bonheur, leur confort et leur sécurité. Car la lumière est aussi, et peut-être avant tout, un enjeu de pouvoir: de la première lanterne royale au développement des leds dans la smart city, la lumière urbaine, née pour seconder la police au XVIIe siecle, trace des frontières, delimite les lieux fréquentables, et permet de scander autrement les rythmes de travail. Mais c'est également grâce à elle que s'inventa la vie nocturne, et ses fêtes... Du Moyen Age au XXIe siècle, telle est la fascinante et paradoxale histoire de la lumière urbaine, entre progrès technique et bouleversement social, au carrefour de l'ordre et du désordre, que retrace Agnes Bovet-Pavy dans cet ouvrage richement documenté et magnifiquement illustré."

Eclairage public --- Histoire --- Municipal lighting --- Exterior lighting --- Lighting --- Eclairage public --- Eclairage exterieur --- Eclairage

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Energy policy --- Electric lighting --- Light emitting diodes

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How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture.In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture—as a new, uniquely modern kind of building material. Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape; it brought with it new ways of perceiving and experiencing space itself. If modernity can be characterized by rapid, incessant change, and modernism as the creative response to such change, Isenstadt argues, then electricity—instantaneous, malleable, ubiquitous, evanescent—is modernity's medium. Isenstadt shows how the introduction of electric lighting at the end of the nineteenth century created new architectural spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. He constructs an architectural history of these new spaces through five examples, ranging from the tangible miracle of the light switch to the immaterial and borderless gloom of the wartime blackout. He describes what it means when an ordinary person can play God by flipping a switch; when the roving cone of automobile headlights places driver and passenger at the vertex of a luminous cavity; when lighting in factories is seen to enhance productivity; when Times Square became an emblem of illuminated commercial speech; and when the absence of electric light in a blackout produced a new type of space. In this book, the first sustained examination of the spatial effects of electric lighting, Isenstadt reconceives modernism in architecture to account for the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification.

Electric lighting --- Municipal lighting --- Street lighting --- Lighting, Architectural and decorative --- Eclairage électrique --- Eclairage public --- Rues --- Eclairage architectural --- Eclairage décoratif --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- History. --- Aspect psychologique --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Eclairage --- Hiistoire --- Architecture --- electric lighting