Bright lights, big city
This program explains the surprisingly strong effect that street lighting has on our cities. In addition to being a powerful tool to prevent crime, more and better lighting has improved the sense of well-being and added new dimensions to the business and social activities of the city. But as a whole...
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| Corporate Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Films Media Group,
[2009]
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| Series: | Metropolis (Princeton, N.J.)
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| Online Access: | Streaming video (Emerson users only) Streaming video (Wentworth users only) |
Table of Contents:
- Night Is Chaos (1:20)
- Mandatory Torch Decree (1:23)
- Darkness and Crime (0:55)
- Street Lamps: Absolutist Rule (1:16)
- History of Street Lights (0:55)
- Crime: Social Problem (0:57)
- Street Lighting and Crime Reduction (0:54)
- First Discovery of Natural Gas (0:37)
- Natural Gas Lighting (1:28)
- Gas: Awesome and Unpredictable (0:59)
- Man's Triumph over Natural Order (0:56)
- Gas Lamps and Popular Culture (1:01)
- Gas Threatened by Electricity (1:04)
- Improvements in Street Lighting (1:18)
- Tower Lighting (0:46)
- Swan's Incandescent Light Bulb (1:01)
- Light Bulbs Safer than Gas (1:16)
- 1915 Trade Fair Lights (1:16)
- Artificial Light (1:19)
- Yellow Street Lighting (1:20)
- Neon Lights (1:27)
- Night People (1:10)
- Winter Blues (1:15)
- Natural Light vs. Artificial Light (1:17)
- Can We Ever Learn to Turn Off Light? (1:01)