NEW ARCHITECTURE SECRET SERVICES AND LAW AND ORDER INSTITUTIONS – A PROFILE AND SYSTEMATICS ATTEMPT
NEW ARCHITECTURE SECRET SERVICES AND LAW AND ORDER INSTITUTIONS – A PROFILE AND SYSTEMATICS ATTEMPT

Summary/Abstract: Headquarters of secret services and public security institutions are typicallybuild as suburban office parks, surrounded with parking lots, or as downtown citadels,situated close to government districts. They are huge, inaccessible and strongly securedstructures. Formerly their images used to be classified, but now, very often, theircontemporary architecture, which resembles university campuses or corporationheadquarters, is being used as a marketing tool to create a desirable public image,suggesting that they are open, transparent and democratic institutions

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