City halls and civic materialism : towards a global history of urban public space / edited by Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White.

"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 b...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abington, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Architext series.
Subjects:	City halls. Symbolism in architecture. Public spaces.