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245 00 $aCity halls and civic materialism :$btowards a global history of urban public space /$cedited by Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aAbington, Oxon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2014.
300 $axxii, 310 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe architext series
520 $a"The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe. As the space of representative civic authority it aimed to set the terms of public space and engagement with the citizenry. In subsequent centuries, as the idea and built form travelled beyond Europe to become an established institution across the globe, the parameters of civic representation changed and the town hall was forced to negotiate new notions of urbanism and public space. City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space utilizes the town hall in its global historical incarnations as bases to probe these changing ideas of urban public space. The essays in this volume provide an analysis of the architecture, iconography, and spatial relations that constitute the town hall to explore its historical ability to accommodate the "public" in different political and social contexts, in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas, as the relation between citizens and civic authority had to be revisited with the universal franchise, under fascism, after the devastation of the world wars, decolonization, and most recently, with the neo-liberal restructuring of cities.As a global phenomenon, the town hall challenges the idea that nationalism, imperialism, democracy, the idea of citizenship - concepts that frame the relation between the individual and the body politic -- travel the globe in modular forms, or in predictable trajectories from the West to East, North to South. Collectively the essays argue that if the town hall has historically been connected with the articulation of bourgeois civil society, then the town hall as a global spatial type -- architectural space, urban monument, and space of governance -- holds a mirror to the promise and limits of civil society. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe. As the space of representative civic authority it aimed to set the terms of public space and engagement with the citizenry. In subsequent centuries, as the idea and built form travelled beyond Europe to become an established institution across the globe, the parameters of civic representation changed and the town hall was forced to negotiate new notions of urbanism and public space. City Halls and Civic Materialism explores the town hall in its many global historical incarnations as bases to probe these changing ideas of urban public space. The essays in this volume provide an analysis of the architecture, iconography, and spatial relations that constitute the town hall and explore its historical ability to accommodate the "public" in different political and social contexts, in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas. The relation between citizens and civic authority has had to be revisited with the universal franchise, under fascism, after the devastation of the world wars, decolonization, and most recently, with the neo-liberal restructuring of cities. As a global phenomenon, the town hall challenges the idea that nationalism, imperialism, democracy, the idea of citizenship - concepts that frame the relation between the individual and the body politic - travel the globe in modular forms, or in predictable trajectories from West to East, North to South"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aCity halls.
650 0 $aSymbolism in architecture.
650 0 $aPublic spaces.
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / Criticism.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / History / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aChattopadhyay, Swati,$d1962-,$eeditor.
700 1 $aWhite, Jeremy$q(Jeremy Scott),$eeditor.
700 12 $aRyan, Mary P.$tLaudable pride in the whole of us.
830 0 $aArchitext series.
852 00 $boff,ave$hNA4430$i.C58 2014
852 00 $bbar$hNA4430$i.C58 2014