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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). | 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). | ||
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Revision as of 14:57, May 17, 2007
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[1]. 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 city 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
- ↑ Unless it's in Boston, Massachusetts, where almost all the spaces known as "squares" are of highly irregular shape.