
A study of the shape and appearance of civic places and the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence. A civic place belongs to everyone and yet to nobody in particular. In Civic Realism, Peter G. Rowe looks at the shape...

Examines the shape and appearance of civic places, and at the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existance. The book considers the role of the state and civil society in the construction of civil places and individual and collective uses of urban...