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). |