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CIVIC CROSSROADS: A DEMOCRATIC CIVIC ARCHITECTURE FOR SUBURBAN AMERICA
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BENNETT, MATTHEW PAUL
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Year and Degree
2003, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning : Architecture.
Abstract
Since the birth of the United States of America as a democratically governed country, architecture has been called upon to express the purposes of the new institutions of democratic government. The goal of these architects was to create spaces symbolic of the hopes and aspirations of the founders. The development of an architecture for democracy is closely connected to an understanding of the nature of the public sphere within the built environment, and of the notion of civic space in particular. This thesis investigates the meaning and importance of civic space, and through it, the nature of democratic space. The examination continues to the symbolic and spatial evocations of democracy within American architecture, and an investigation of the changing concept of civic space within American communities. Finally, the project combines the ideals of democratic and civic space in the design of a city hall for a suburban community.
Committee
Dr. Barry Stedman (Advisor)
Pages
134 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
democratic architecture
;
city hall
;
civic architecture
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BENNETT, M. P. (2003).
CIVIC CROSSROADS: A DEMOCRATIC CIVIC ARCHITECTURE FOR SUBURBAN AMERICA
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053374599
APA Style (7th edition)
BENNETT, MATTHEW.
CIVIC CROSSROADS: A DEMOCRATIC CIVIC ARCHITECTURE FOR SUBURBAN AMERICA.
2003. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053374599.
MLA Style (8th edition)
BENNETT, MATTHEW. "CIVIC CROSSROADS: A DEMOCRATIC CIVIC ARCHITECTURE FOR SUBURBAN AMERICA." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053374599
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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