City and town halls

Vitalizing the Town of Wingate Wingate is a small railroad town in North Carolina with a population of around 4,000 people. The people here are held together mainly by the social fabric of Wingate’s University, a college lodged directly in the town’s center. Instead of having a lively downtown area for the college’s students to roam and hang out, there is an only a large highway, highway 74, that runs right through the middle of campus. Bringing in commuters from small towns along the…

Before 1854, when Portland was just a clearing, it was referred to as “stump-town” In July 1850 you could ride a steamboat between Astoria and Oregon City. You would be going about 4 miles per hour and it would take you up the Willamette, seeing Linnton with a couple of cabins and the beginning of St.Johns. After about another 2 hours you would be in Portland with a population of about 400. Just about everyone you met would be promoting a townsite. During the years around 1850 there were a dozen…

The City of Alexandria is located in Northern Virginia, about seven miles south of downtown Washington D.C. Sitting on the west bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria encompasses a total area of 15.5 square miles, of which 97.15 percent is land and 2.75 percent is water. With a population of 150,575 residents (according to the 2014 census), Alexandria is the seventh largest city in Virginia. Interestingly, it is also the most populated town among the fourteen Alexandrias in the United States.…

designing a new residence hall on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Simmons Hall, one of Holl’s more recognizable designs, is a 350-bed residence that houses 10% of MIT students living on campus. Holl designed the building to stick out amongst the very progressive and modern architecture on MIT’s campus. His concept of “Porosity” is used to infuse the city and campus together. Along with the rooms, there are many amenities: movie theater, dining hall, night café, and a…

born in Corinth but when she became a young woman she moved to the city of Thebes. She came from a very poor and humble family, but Jocasta was extremely beautiful which was something that helped changed her life forever in the future. One day, Laius the king of the city of Thebes was doing a town hall to the public in the city square to hear what kind of problems the citizens of Thebes are having. While the king was doing the town hall that’s when Laius noticed this beautiful woman that stand…

sculptors and artists. Civic Square represents the “heart” of Wellington City due to the surrounding civic building’s development. Since the council reclaimed the land of the site in mid 1880’s, it has gradually built sequences of significant public buildings. For example, in 1904 the Town Hall was established, then in 1940 Wellington Library was created and the Council Administrative Building was built in 1951 (Wellington City District Plan). Before Civic Square, these buildings were in three…

In the 28th of June, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, next in line to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo. Bosnia-Herzegovina during a touring session, within the city by a Black Hand Assassin, Gavrilo Princip. Franz Ferdinand was an advocate of increased federalism and widely believed to favor tribalism, under which Austria-Hungary would be reorganized by combining the Slavic lands within the Austro-Hungarian empire into a third crown. Supportive of this idealism, the…

rural town comes with many perks and as well as disadvantages. One perk is the quiet openness of living outside a major city. The city being forty-five minutes away; there are no bright lights, police sirens, or even ambulances whizzing by at all hours of the day or night. If you happened to get pulled over, the police officer would dial up your parent’s phone number leaving you a ticket and an unpleasant conversation at home. In fact, we only had the one blinking stop light in the entire town!…

of the Highland community. Although Weinheimer had been apart from Highland soil for many years, the town still held a place in his heart. Upon his death, information was released that he had bequeathed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand to the City of Highland to support finances for the construction for a public community building. Weinheimer believed Highland was the quintessential town to host this building, which was a memorial to his parents under the name of “Weinheimer Community…

much it could help them and not hurt them. At the town hall meeting, Katie Schnitz made it a point to stand up in support of Big-Mart as she was unable to afford the basic necessities for her family. She and others not only desire but need Big-Mart in order to survive. Both the mayor and city council have yet to actually weigh in on the Big-Mart debate, but it well known that with any city, the Mayor wants the best for his/her citizens. The mayor also hopes that things are worked out in the…