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City halls and civic materialism : towards a global history of urban public space"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 investigates the city hall in its many global historical incarnations and probes the changing ideas of urban public space. The essays in this volume analyze the architecture, iconography, and spatial relations that constitute the city hall. The authors explore the city hall's historical ability to accommodate the "public" in different political and social contexts: when the relationship between citizens and civic authority has had to be revisited with the universal franchise; under fascism; after the devastation of the world wars; decolonizatio; and most recently, with the neoliberal 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."--Type of material - book ; adult, seriousEdition - 1st ed.Publication and manufacture - London ; New York : Routledge, 2014Language - englishISBN - 978-0-415-81900-8; 978-1-315-81368-4COBISS.SI-ID - 187939075
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| Library | Call number – location, accession no. ... | Copy status |
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| Faculty of Architecture, Lj. | Knjižnica 725.1 CITY halls IN: 120240109 |
on loan - outside loan, due date: 19.04.2024
Expected to be available after: 22.07.2024 (1. in queue) |
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