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By N. J. Demerath, Etan Diamond, Mary L. Mapes, Elfriede Wedam
This examine of the non secular panorama of Indianapolis -- the summative quantity of the Lilly Endowment's venture on faith and concrete tradition performed by means of the Polis heart at IUPUI -- goals to appreciate religion's altering function in public existence. The e-book examines the shaping of non secular traditions by means of the altering urban. It sheds mild on matters reminiscent of social capital and faith-based welfare reform and explores the countervailing pressures of "decentering" -- the construction of a number of (sub)urban facilities -- and civil religion's position in binding those facilities into one metropolis.Polis middle sequence on faith and concrete tradition -- David J. Bodenhamer and Arthur E. Farnsley II, editors
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Civic Centers Symbolizing Common Bonds No matter how spread out contemporary cities may seem, they always contain civic centers that are identifiable locally, and perhaps even recognizable nationally or globally. S. Capitol; for Paris, the Eiffel Tower; for London, the Clock Tower and Houses of Parliament. These are central civic spaces recognized as symbols by insiders and outsiders alike; they show up on postcards and are featured in the coffee table books produced by chambers of commerce. Indianapolis has three such civic symbols: Monument Circle, the War Memorial Mall, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
This changed in 1964, however, with the election of Democrat (and Catholic) John Barton as mayor. Barton had run on a platform of increasing the power of the office, and emphasized increasing the powers of annexation to strengthen the city center. Barton’s election and his plans to expand the city outward raised eyebrows, particularly among suburban residents who had left the city and did not want to be dragged back into it. The Republican Party, which dominated the suburban areas of Marion County and was mainly mainline Protestant, also did not look kindly at the prospect of a strong Democratic mayor expanding his strongly Democratic central city into the periphery.
1. Residences Listed in the Indianapolis Social Register, 1931. Courtesy The Polis Center. competing agendas. New organizations, such as the GIPC or the Corporate Community Council (CCC), and philanthropic bodies such as the Lilly Endowment or the Indianapolis Foundation, while not necessarily at odds with one another, nonetheless offered multiple venues for Indianapolis’s civic leadership to wield influence. Most recently, the emergence of a ‘‘new economy’’ has resulted in yet another evolution in the city’s elite.