The idealism of the '60s extended to the notion that architecture in itself could engender meaningful social change, a belief now long out of circulation and perhaps never more so than at a time when the city's civic leaders view development largely as bait for luring foreign capital.
Supposing then that non-domination and non-interference are indeed distinct ideas, one might wonder where this leaves the latter, on the civic republican view of things.
Again, it should be emphasized here that citizens do not enjoy republican freedom, on the civic republican view, by being virtuous.
(Also like non-interference, non-domination comes in degrees: on the civic republican view, one is not either free or unfree, but rather more or less free depending on the extent of non-domination one securely enjoys).
And so it may occur to you that the field has become the central plaza of a European town, the site of some great civic ritual viewed from the packed windows of surrounding buildings.
Statewide rehabilitation efforts had failed, owing in part to lack of funding, and so many civic leaders viewed a new punitive regime as an improvement: it wouldn't help reform the addicts or dealers, but it might help protect everyone else.
As a result, civilians in turn view civic works by the military with suspicion.
She is dead from a civic point of view," the mother said.
Here everything, from the officials to the discarded cigar butts, express the majesty and beauty of our civic system... View Article By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By Robin Wright.
It would be a particularly dangerous legal error from a civic point of view to instruct a jury that they may convict a defendant for his exercise of either of these constitutionally protected activities".
