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creation by extraction from "square"
A '''public square''' is an open space within a town or city, of a perfect or approximately square shape, or of a regular rectangular shape<ref>Unless it's in Boston, Massachusetts, where almost all the spaces known as "squares" are of highly irregular shape.</ref>. A square is usually open for public intercourse, as in a market square or public square, but sometimes center of the square comprises private grounds (as in the garden squares constructed in the high-class residential suburbs of west [[London]] in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries).
In modern [[town planning]], the leaving of space to be set aside as open and public serves an important function amidst all the privately owned and built land.
==References==
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[[category:public space]]
[[category:urban development]]
[[category:civil engineering]]
[[category:Cities]]
[[category:Cities in Massachusetts]]
In modern [[town planning]], the leaving of space to be set aside as open and public serves an important function amidst all the privately owned and built land.
==References==
<references/>
[[category:public space]]
[[category:urban development]]
[[category:civil engineering]]
[[category:Cities]]
[[category:Cities in Massachusetts]]