Havana's Resilient Social Life - Cuban Public Spaces Over the Years
With improving diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US, the country’s public space and public life, is poised to evolve in new directions, for better and worse.
Great Public Spaces55
There is nothing like the thrill that one gets when they go to a great place again and again. Great places are addictive dwell in your memory, often emerging to cheer you up and give you incentive to go back or just explore in your mind the pleasures you had or what you might have missed. They can be in your community/neighborhood at a corner cafe, a special store or park. Often they are right in front of our noses if we will just look.
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Time-Honored Places: The Public Square, Part II
Public Spaces as squares are plazas in Spain, Latin America, and sometimes the U.S., piazzas in Italy, platz in German-speaking countries, and simply "square" everywhere in between. In many small towns they have the Village Green. In essence they are the main gathering places for people.
Creating Catalytic Public Squares, Our work, Part I
What great squares have to offer their communities is limitless. The most magical parts about these places are the simple, crucial chance encounters that allow us to have with others.
Pop-up Restaurants on the Waterfront: Six Cities that Do It Well
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Kungsträdgården: Stockholm's Square for All
Stockholm's Kungsträdgården has everything one could want in a great square. It is one of the most diverse and important squares in Europe
Paris, the World's Best Waterfront
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