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City Halls and Civic Materialism - Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (Hardcover, New)
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City Halls and Civic Materialism - Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (Hardcover, New)
Series: Architext
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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.
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