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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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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.
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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==
 
==References==
    
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[[category:Cities]]
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[[category:Cities in Massachusetts]] ‎
 
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