A city seeking a new civic symbol should look deeply into the subject of symbolism itself.

La Grande Vitesse was formally dedicated on June 14, 1969, and has since become a popular civic symbol.

It will be a civil center as well as a civic symbol.

Why must a new civic symbol flirt with the old, even in jest?

In calling for architects to create a civic symbol, the program sets forth a notion of civic identity rooted in the past.

The civic symbols of our time will be clearly rooted in that context.

"Yankee Stadium is an important civic symbol, but it is none of the other things."

Chief among them is the Golden Bear, after Berlin's civic symbol.

"I had never realized that there was such a deep identification of the people with it as a civic symbol."

Bocholt's civic symbol is the tree.