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"a car storage area": Ibid.

How complex the relation: For information on the study of Chicago's alleyways, see The Chicago Alley Lighting Project: Final Evaluation Report, April 2000, http://www.icjia.state.il.us/public/pdf/ResearchReports (accessed June 8, 2009).

295 "Yes, my tent became": Michel Siffre, Beyond Time: The Heroic Adventure of a Scientist's 63 Days Spent in Darkness and Solitude in a Cave 375 Feet Underground, ed. and trans. Herma Briffault (London: Chatto & Windus, 1965), pp. 99–100.

[>] "A growing number": "Sustainability, Urban Planning, and What They Mean to Dark Skies," Newsletter of the International Dark-Sky Association, http://www.darksky.org/news/newsletters/60-69/nl66_fea.html (accessed May 23, 2007).

[>] "a new city of light": Hollister Noble, "New York's Crown of Light," New York Times, February 8, 1925, p. SM2.

[>] "The tall tower": Ken Belson, "Efficiency's Mark: City Glitters a Little Less," New York Times, November 2, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com (accessed March 11, 2009).

[>] "Unfortunately most of today's": John E. Bortle, "Introducing the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale," Sky & Telescope, February 2001, p. 126.

[>] "There's a good part": Quoted in Dave Caldwell, "Dark Sky, Bright Lights," New York Times, September 14, 2007, p. F10.

[>] "When my mother": Alhassan Sillah, "Fuel for Thought in Guinea," BBC News, http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/h (accessed March 14, 2009).

"I hardly ever": Ibid.

"I used to study": Rukmini Callimachi, "Kids in Guinea Study Under Airport Lamps," Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19 (accessed March 14, 2009).

[>] "Working in the so-called": Sheila Kennedy, quoted in "Light unto the Developing World," Miller-McCune Magazine, http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/light-unto-the-developing-world (accessed December 13, 2008).

"Instead of a centralized": Kennedy, quoted in "Energizing the Household Curtain," JumpIntoTomorrow.com, http://www.jumpintotomorrow.com/template/index/php?tech=82 (accessed December 14, 2008).

EPILOGUE

[>] For further information on ways to reduce light pollution, see International Dark-Sky Association, http://www.darksky.org, and Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP), http://www.flap.org.

Index

Table of Contents

Cover

Brilliant

Copyright

Contents

Prologue

PART I

1. Lascaux: The First Lamp

2. Time of Dark Streets

3. Lanterns at Sea

4. Gaslight

5. Toward a More Perfect Flame

PART II

6. Life Electric

7. Incandescence

8. Overwhelming Brilliance: The White City

9. Niagara: Long-Distance Light

PART III

10. New Century, Last Flame

11. Gleaming Things

12. Alone in the Dark

13. Rural Electrification

14. Cold Light

15. Wartime: The Return of Old Night

16. Lascaux Discovered

PART IV

17. Blackout, 1965

18. Imagining the Next Grid

19. At the Mercy of Light

20. More Is Less

21. The Once and Future Light

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Bibliographic Note

Notes

Index