A brief history of luminous tubing, neon signs, neon art, and neon preservation.

Without neon, Las Vegas might still be a sleepy desert town in Nevada and Times Square merely another busy intersection in New York City. Transformed by the ins

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How di

Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours

This stunning history of neon sign making includes more than 100 illustrations and charts showing the technical aspects of manufacture, and the dazzling potenti