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Embodying Civil Society in Public Space: Re-Envisioning the Public Square of Mansfield, Ohio

WILSCHUTZ, SETH DOUGLAS
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1112648545

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2005, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of).
Public architecture that frames civic space, enlivens political debate, and embodies democratic ideals is the focus of this thesis. In the United States, civic architecture historically sought to express the purposes and ideals of the new institutions of a representative democracy. Civic architecture further shaped and bounded the civic sphere of public discourse. The decline of the public realm in the nineteenth century has, by extension, resulted in a decline of the civic realm. This thesis investigates how civic architecture can best reflect and embody, represent and nurture, a civil society appropriate to a twenty-first century representative democracy, while seeking to frame a contemporary civic realm. The analysis continues to the symbolic and spatial evocations of civil society ideals within American architecture, and an investigation into the changing concepts of civic architecture. Finally, the design project seeks to express and realize such civil society ideals through an urban design project for the public square of Mansfield, Ohio, and the design of a new county courthouse.
Gordon Simmons (Advisor)
162 p.
Architecture
public realm; civic realm; public sphere; public space; imaging; civic; civic place-making; Siena; Piazza del Campo; National Mall; Washington, DC; Santa Barbara; County Courthouse; Marin County Civic Center; Frank LLoyd Wright; virtual space

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  • WILSCHUTZ, S. D. (2005). Embodying Civil Society in Public Space: Re-Envisioning the Public Square of Mansfield, Ohio [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1112648545

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • WILSCHUTZ, SETH. Embodying Civil Society in Public Space: Re-Envisioning the Public Square of Mansfield, Ohio. 2005. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1112648545.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • WILSCHUTZ, SETH. "Embodying Civil Society in Public Space: Re-Envisioning the Public Square of Mansfield, Ohio." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1112648545

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