City Halls and Civic Materialism (English, Swati Chattopadhyay | Jeremy White)

About the Book

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 wa…

ISBN: 9780415819008