Planners portrayed the urban form as a product of social and economic forces or a backdrop for civic institutions, private development initiatives, and public action.
Against a backdrop of civic trauma and deep anxiety about the future of New York City, Mark Green won the Democratic nomination for mayor last night.
So in a town where violent death, tragically, is part of the backdrop of civic life, 17 officials led by Mayor Cory A. Booker showed up for a midday news conference on Wednesday, to speak about yet another murder.
Reliefs featuring emperors engaged in religious and civic rituals against architectural backdrops, coins celebrating newly constructed buildings, paintings emphasizing the spatial settings of everyday activities the range of ancient media and genres reproducing edifices is vast.
In the backdrop of this civic kaleidoscope lurked a more subtle unease -- an emotion born on Sept. 11 and transformed into a new vigilance.
Dedicated as the Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza, the buildings of the Civic Center serve as a backdrop to the amphitheater, and by using Main Street to increase the space, the amphitheater can accommodate crowds of 5,000 people.
In many small municipalities, Fourth of July fireworks allow politicians to mingle before a backdrop of patriotism and civic pride.
As the players left the Lahaina Civic Center, they were greeted by a small number of fans and an unfamiliar backdrop: swaying palms, the cresting Pacific Ocean and an air-conditioned charter bus.
Twice a month, Ramos set up a backdrop with one simple light and a chair inside of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at PHC.
If you want to tell the most important story in human history, if you believe that rousing your audience to civic action is part of journalism's job, you might want to cover the 2016 campaign against the backdrop of brutal climate change, and to frame this election as a choice whose consequences could be irreversibly damaging for the rest of human history.
For all his powerful words and the standing ovation Obama received inside Anchorage's Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center at the GLACIER conference -- Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience -- the backdrop for his Alaska visit is tense.
