Buildings, Manners and Laws: The Charleston Single House as a Definer of Urban Form and Shaper of City Life
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Russell, Robert
- Other Affiliation: Addlestone Professor of Architectural History, College of Charleston
- Abstract
- When Charles Town was incorporated as Charleston, South Carolina in 1783, just over 100 years after being established, she adopted as her municipal motto the Latin phrase Aedes, Mores Legaque Curat - "she takes care of her buildings, her manners and her laws." It tells a lot about what kind of place Charleston is. The buildings I want to talk about here are houses, one particular - and particular to Charleston - house type especially. It is known as the "single house." There are, as I will show, particular ways of living - manners - that go with this kind of house and with a city made up of these houses. There may not ever have been any laws in Charleston regulating building types (though there were, and continue to be, plenty of building regulations) but there seems to have been something that urged individuals in a similar direction over a long period of time. And it certainly is the case that some general principles - rules, if not quite laws - can be drawn from an examination of Charleston domestic architecture that are still suitable for use today.
- Date of publication
- 1999
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- Resource type
- Article
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- In Copyright
- Journal title
- Carolina Planning Journal
- Journal volume
- 24
- Journal issue
- 2
- Page start
- 11
- Page end
- 17
- Language
- English
- Digital collection
- Carolina Planning Journal
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