Literary notes about municipal (AI summary)
The word "municipal" has been used in literature to evoke a spectrum of meanings related to local governance, civic institutions, and societal organization. In political and urban planning discourses—for instance, in Sir Ebenezer Howard’s discussions of municipal debt, enterprise, and reform [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]—the term defines the distinctions between public and private responsibilities, highlighting how urban spaces are managed and improved. In narrative and historical texts, "municipal" also characterizes everyday bureaucratic and administrative roles, as seen in portrayals of municipal guards, bank directors, or even police in both realistic and satirical contexts [9, 10, 11, 12]. Moreover, its bilingual usage, exemplified in Spanish readers where it denotes a policeman or watchman [13, 14, 15, 16], further extends its semantic range across cultural boundaries. Whether establishing the legal constraints of local administration or critiquing the vibrant life of city institutions—as in discussions by Carlyle and Vonnegut [17, 18, 19]—the term “municipal” has served as a versatile marker of both the power and the peculiarities of local order in literature.
- A municipal debtor is quite different from an ordinary debtor in one most important respect.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard - But what principle is to guide us in determining the line which shall separate municipal from private control and management?
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard - SEMI-MUNICIPAL ENTERPRISE—LOCAL OPTION—TEMPERANCE REFORM.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard - A workman of Garden City borrows £200 from a pro-municipal building society, and builds a house with it.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard - Our answer, then, to the question, what field is to be covered by municipal enterprise, is this.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard - Will the principles on which Garden City is to be built have any bearing on the effectiveness of its municipal expenditure?
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard - London wishes to breathe a fuller municipal spirit, and so proceeds to construct schools, to pull down slums, to erect libraries, swimming baths, etc.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard - And not only would each trader be in a sense a municipal servant, but those in his employ would be also.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard - Among them was Shebaldin, the director of the municipal bank, who was famed for his love of literature and dramatic art.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Whereupon the Theatres all close, the Bourne-stones and Portable-chairs begin spouting, Municipal Placards flaming on the walls, and
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - A squadron of the Municipal Guard is bivouacking in the Place Dauphine.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - They had seen a Municipal Guard smash in the head of a dying man with the butt end of his musket.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - municipal , municipal; guardia——, policeman.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Alfred Remy and Erwin W. Roessler - municipal , municipal; guardia——, policeman.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Alfred Remy and Erwin W. Roessler - guardia , m. , watchman; —— municipal , policeman.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Alfred Remy and Erwin W. Roessler - un guardia municipal en esta ciudad cuando hace falta?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Alfred Remy and Erwin W. Roessler - Too clear it is, no Royal bounty, no Municipal dexterity can adequately feed a Bastille-destroying Paris.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - "To be or not to be" was the telephone number of the municipal gas chambers of the Federal Bureau of Termination.
— from 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut - He corrected himself, gave the municipal gas chambers their official title, a title no one ever used in conversation.
— from 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut
