Civic center

the term "civic center" has been used in reference to an entire central business district of a community or a major shopping center in the middle of a community.

[citation needed] In this type of civic center, special attention is paid to the way public structures are grouped and landscaped.

[citation needed] After the amalgamation of Toronto in 1998, five of the six municipalities in the former Metro Toronto used the Civic Centre name in referring to their respective city halls before its abolition.

In most cases civic centres in the UK are a focus for local government offices and public service buildings.

With the reforms of local government in London in 1965 and across England in anticipation of the implementation of the Redcliffe-Maud Report in 1974, a number of local authorities commissioned new civic centres sometimes funded by disposing of their 19th Century Town Hall buildings.