Can you talk a little about pedestrian plazas and public plazas?
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Wanda has 211 Wanda Plazas in operation, with another 13 million sq m under construction that will add close to 100 Wanda Plazas.
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Wanda has 211 Wanda Plazas in operation, with another 103 million sq m under construction that will add close to 100 Wanda Plazas.
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And it recommended that the City Planning Department better inform the public about the plazas through an advertising campaign and better signs around the plazas.
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She is a daughter of Christine Mortell Plazas and Carlos E. Plazas of Irvington, N.Y. The bride's father is based there as a consultant in international banking and economics.
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Roads go under the plazas or are stymied by more sheer granite; the plazas close at night, as does the fluorescent catacomb of retail and administrative concourses that run under them.
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Polly Trottenberg, the city's transportation commissioner, said that 230 pedestrian plazas had been built, in Times Square and other parts of the city, since 21990, and that another 10 plazas were under construction.
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Pedestrian plazas were built in Times Square 10 years ago.
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That changed when pedestrian plazas were carved out of streets.
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He said planners determined that bollards were needed on the plazas but not on all the sidewalks, because people relaxing at patio tables and pedestrians distracted by performances would be more vulnerable in the plazas.
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At 2 World Trade Center, it's like six plazas or parks.
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Marketplaces, plazas and nature reserves have been built in for residents.
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Creating public plazas out of streets physically embodies democracy in cities.
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Images of the protests showed throngs of people in plazas and roadways.
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THE PLAZAS in San Salvador's historical centre were once decrepit and dangerous.
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Buildings that get demolished, meanwhile, could make way for gardens and plazas.
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The border plazas were used to smuggle drugs into the United States.
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Finally, the fans poured into the concourses and onto the plazas outside.
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Some cities offer free connections in plazas or public parks and spaces.
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Although the bookstore had locations in airports, outlet malls, and shopping plazas,
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Plazas in New York are all 20,263 square feet, 100 deep, 200 wide.
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Montevideo's plazas, even if memories of economic meltdown—the result of the orthodoxy
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His name adorns buildings and plazas around the international organization's New York headquarters.
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Montevideo has many large parks, plazas, tree-lined streets, sandy beaches and wide avenues.
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The public plazas of Cúcuta now fill each night with sleeping Venezuelans, he said.
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Rather than replacing a collapsed freeway along the bay, the city built waterside plazas.
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From the canalsides to central plazas like Leidseplein and Rembrandtplein, the place is packed.
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In 1961, the zoning code was altered and encouraged more broad plazas and arcades.
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More parking areas for bikes may be designated on sidewalks and in pedestrian plazas.
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Ten years ago, nobody knew about bus bulbs or slowing areas, or (pedestrian) plazas.
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They're now a mainstay of corporate plazas everywhere, but that was originally WET's idea.
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Then that lead-laced dust settled on buildings, squares, parks, and plazas, test indicate.
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The report also called for changes in the way the city polices the plazas.
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The city has many large parks, plazas, tree-lined streets, sandy beaches and wide avenues.
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"Three-card monte," a street card trick, is banned on public streets, sidewalks and plazas.
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Later, the city began creating pedestrian plazas and rethought the role cars play in streets.
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León immediately felt more manageable than Managua, with sidewalks and plazas and people wandering about.
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It lets the Transportation Department regulate city plazas and create rules particular to Times Square.
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The centre is a concrete tangle of highways and roundabouts encircling windswept, early-28s pedestrian plazas.
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THE grey Stalinist blocks, potholed roads and intimidating communist-era plazas hardly suggest a hipster hotspot.
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Thousands of Venezuelans had fled to Maicao and were now living in its parks and plazas.
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"We've gotten used to these 1960s, 1970s plazas with obligatory big artworks plunked down," he said.
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The retailer had hundreds of stores in prime malls and shopping plazas across the United States.
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As malls grew in popularity throughout the 1980s, Sears became an anchor store in many plazas.
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In urban settings, streets and sidewalks — along with parks and plazas — make up the public environment.
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In every drug sale territory, or "plazas," has one man in charge of discipline and cash flow.
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Soon, massive crowds calling for change were converging on the central plazas of dozens of Chinese cities.
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It has five plazas serving as historical city centers with and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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The community will have eight acres of parks, plazas and bike-pedestrian paths open to the public.
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Hospitals, parks, and plazas were to be spaced evenly throughout the city, to maximize equality of access.
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For months, they have been camping in malaria-stricken plazas and abandoned buildings, and on the streets.
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The city has closed off portions of major streets and turned them into plazas with bistro tables.
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A book behemoth, Borders and its Waldenbooks subsidiary had locations in airports, outlet malls, and shopping plazas.
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Transponders make using toll roads easy, eliminating the need to stop at toll plazas, and improving travel time.
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"People are hunting dogs and cats in the streets, and pigeons in the plazas to eat," he tweeted.
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Instead of wandering the plazas, he now performed in one zone, and more people were stopping to watch.
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Other residents looking to hop online usually frequent parks and plazas that have public Wi-Fi connection spots.
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Suchkova, 31, works on the creation and operation of pedestrian plazas for the Horticultural Society of New York.
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In all, these plazas will total 27 acres, roughly the equivalent of 20 football fields, Ms. Trottenberg said.
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Two more superblocks followed in 2005 in Gràcia, a northern neighborhood known for its plazas and narrow streets.
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Then, in 2011, a New York City ordinance banned smoking at public parks, boardwalks, beaches and pedestrian plazas.
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Lumiere London features a roster of international artists that put their spin on local buildings, walkways and plazas.
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They said that craft has its own space on the streets and in the markets, in the plazas.
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They've added hundreds of miles of bike lanes, and they've created new pedestrian plazas in all five boroughs.
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The desperation can be seen in the caravan among the families with small children sleeping in crowded plazas.
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The suspect, described as a white male in his 30s, fired shots into shopping plazas and busy intersections.
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But Times Square is different from the other plazas in size and volume, and that affects people's expectations.
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The city's neighborhoods are temporarily overtaken by so-called interventions at plazas, classrooms, riverbanks, water fountains and more.
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A striking example of one of the best remaining Spanish colonial plazas anywhere, and most people miss it.
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These vehicles would congregate in centrally located plazas within Toyota's prototype city to sell goods or provide services.
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Karl: I think the biggest difference between skate plazas and skateparks is not having to run from the cops.
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At its peak, an estimated 3,000 people lived in this complex, which contained plazas, dwellings, and a large temple.
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In Marseille, food trucks are everywhere: outside movie theaters, on public plazas, next to bars, outside the Vélodrome stadium.
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Living spaces were placed in the center, with endless program fanning out along the edges, atop stepped, circular plazas.
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IFM, an Australian infrastructure fund, is investing $34m in the toll-road's plazas, part of a $200m-plus upgrade.
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And there have been complaints that the scooters are carelessly tossed aside on sidewalks, parks, plazas and even lawns.
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They've performed at LAX, libraries, city halls, outdoor plazas, garages, abandoned hospitals, pockets of overlooked urban landscaping, and more.
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Cuba's capital city, Havana, is known for for its rows of pastel buildings, outdoor plazas and distinct local cuisine.
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It draws in part on its 5,000 objects, films and books across seven gallery spaces and two sculpture plazas.
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They took captives, many of them children plucked from their homes, and sold them at auctions in village plazas.
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In the public plazas of dozens of cities around the nation, they delivered speeches and cheered each other on.
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In 2015, the police commissioner at the time, William J. Bratton, said pedestrian plazas should be done away with.
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Nuits-Saint-Georges, like other stage hosts, planned to have increased safeguards, like stone traffic barricades for its plazas.
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Performers should be able to make an "honest buck" in the plazas, he said, but some go too far.
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Immediately upon loading my underequipped explorer into this space, I find abandoned plazas, vacant homes, and desolate subway tunnels.
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There are special exhibitions in the museum galleries, in parks and plazas around Madrid, and in museums across Spain.
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Or I move drugs within Mexico, from Chiapas to Guadalajara; these are the famous plazas that are terribly misunderstood.
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New York (CNN Business)In Paris, people gathered in plazas and street corners, eyes trained on the all-consuming fire.
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The people there tell you they see groups of armed men cruising around the central plazas on a daily basis.
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Private merchants first cropped up in the 1990s on the plazas around metro stations and in Moscow's ubiquitous underground passageways.
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Along Water Street, public arcades and public plazas together yielded more than 2.5 million square feet of bonus floor area.
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The project consists of a series of neighborhoods that promote architectural diversity and includes plazas, recreational facilities, and courtyard gardens.
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So you know all those pedestrian avenues and open plazas you love so much in old, built-pre-automobile cities?
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The coastal plazas, he explained, were essential because they were access points for cocaine shipments arriving by sea from Colombia.
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Thick clusters of people standing in public parks and plazas, staring at smartphones and laptops, became an increasingly familiar sight.
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The wide lawns, the grand plazas, the tower, the fountain, the white buildings, all alike, with the orange tiled roofs!
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Is it sad to you that most kids will grow up meeting their friends at skateparks instead of plazas like Embarcadero?
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"A Liminal Blur," as the the plan is called, is a multi-use community center filled with both plazas and towers.
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"A Liminal Blur," as the the plan is called, is a multi-use community center filled with both plazas and towers.
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They have turned scenic city plazas into campgrounds, blocked highways, bus stations and airports and repeatedly marched through downtown Mexico City.
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Before Gallardo, the marijuana smugglers of Mexico operated in distinct regions called "plazas," each led by an equally tough drug lord.
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The CJNG has aggressively sought control of ports, border plazas and areas where drugs are grown and where fuel is stolen.
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Over the years, as these plazas became world famous for skating, Bacon and Kling, in their old age, became pro-skating.
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We've seen these kinds of pedestrian plazas being reintroduced all over the world, bringing great economic and health benefits with them.
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A pilot program to reduce vehicular traffic in that part of Manhattan was such a hit that the plazas became permanent.
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Before radios became domestic furniture, broadcasts aired in public spaces, on sidewalks outside electronic shops, in plazas outside newspaper office buildings.
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Many sidewalks and plazas in the region were ghost towns, and the hum of air-conditioners filled the heavy, ovenlike air.
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Civic Center Plaza, like so many urban plazas everywhere, gives the appearance of public space while simultaneously restricting access to it.
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The Chase deals will generate more than $42 million for the city to improve the district's streets, sidewalks and pedestrian plazas.
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With newly designed pedestrian plazas and streetscapes, the East Cut feels a little like an architectural rendering of a futuristic city.
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The crash occurred at the intersection of El Camino Real and Sunnyvale Avenue, an area surrounded by shopping plazas and restaurants.
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Its nighttime shows in Rio's public plazas draw crowds that fill the square and then jam the side streets as well.
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Once they cross, many cram into public parks and plazas teeming with makeshift homeless shelters, raising concerns about drugs and crime.
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Women are exposed to this type of violence regularly in educational centers, universities, workspaces, political organizations, public transportation, streets, plazas, etc.
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Skateboards — a mode of transportation, an instrument of art, a totem of defiance — now glide across American sidewalks, plazas and streets.
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The site plans replaced the typical suburban bungalows with rowhouses, and traded individual yards for green plazas shared by many neighbors.
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People mingled on sidewalks and plazas, storefronts and markets, food stalls and at the Juici Patties, the local fast-food joints.
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Skateboards — a mode of transportation, an instrument of art, a totem of defiance — now glide across American sidewalks, plazas and streets.
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Alexandra Louise Plazas and Thomas Ulise Herrera were married May 12 at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.
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If you look at Astor Place, where all sorts of things are going on, creating plazas and widening sidewalks, it's transformative.
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At the same time, Manhattan's street grid, devised in the early 1800s, gave little land over to public parks and plazas.
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The scans revealed something potentially majestic beneath the jungle canopy: evidence of moldering buildings, plazas and possibly even a ball court.
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En las plazas públicas de decenas de ciudades de todo el país se pronunciaron discursos y se animaron unas a otras.
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The 250-acre agricultural district will include things like algae farms, vertical seed banks, greenhouses, public plazas, parks, housing, stores and restaurants.
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There is an alien city that glitters and rumbles and opens itself out to you in a warren of corridors and plazas.
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Though public spaces like plazas and parks are historically meant to bring people together, they can leave women the most vulnerable too.
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She built over 203 miles of bike lanes and transformed some of the most congested pockets of the city into pedestrian plazas.
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She built over 400 miles of bike lanes and transformed some of the most congested pockets of the city into pedestrian plazas.
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The speeding vehicle was eventually stopped by one of the squat metal barriers that have been installed around the square's pedestrian plazas.
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The series of plazas we rolled through on this food crawl were, not to put too fine a point on it, unattractive.
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Rivalries between warring criminal groups over drug trafficking and plazas (territories) are generating the kind of brutality usually reserved for the provinces.
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But there they were, amid spacious parks, plazas and tree-lined avenues: a train station, a theater, a palace, some government buildings.
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Trottenberg said the law gives her department authority to implement safety rules and regulations for the city's more than 50 pedestrian plazas.
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Public art, once the domain of corporate plazas and dedicated sculpture parks, has increasingly been integrated into a variety of urban landscapes.
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Planners follow a path of development laid down in the 1960s—towers, shopping centres, plazas—and what Mr Kuma calls "last century clichés".
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"Because of the weather, we don't have proper plazas in the Italian or French style," the writer Magnus Sveinn Helgason explained to me.
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Here you can find parks, plazas, museums and the historic Old State Capital, the tallest building in the state at 2000 feet high.
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Why have people gathered to discuss injustice in public plazas night after night since the end of March under Nuit Debout's informal banner?
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Within each superblock, streets and intersections will be largely closed to traffic and used as community spaces such as plazas, playgrounds and gardens.
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Cuba authorized home internet in 2017, and hundreds of public Wi-Fi connection points have opened in parks and plazas around the country.
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Areas now used for parking and thoroughfares would become public plazas, and buildings on the periphery would be developed for shops and restaurants.
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Troopers are being added at toll plazas even as bridge and tunnel officers, freed up from toll collection, are focusing more on enforcement.
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The report reserved some of its harshest words for the city's Buildings Department, which regulates the plazas along with the City Planning Department.
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With its vast underground parking garage, clean toilets, free food and sheltered plazas, the temple is a refuge from the noisy outside world.
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Commercial plazas and business parks break up the scenery with familiar big box stores, plus a few Ohio mainstays: Bob Evans, Wendy's, Gionino's Pizzeria.
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The Getty Center complex was built to withstand fire, and the plazas and open spaces around buildings were designed with fire retardation in mind.
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Current renovations are expected to wrap up at the end of the year, when granite benches will be installed on the redesigned Broadway plazas.
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Wanda said it will open at least 50 new Wanda Plazas in 2016, adding to a total of 133 at the end of 2015.
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The monumental art pieces of Nevada's Burning Man festival have begun to show up in plazas, parks, museums and galleries across the United States.
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An animated sort of order came to Times Square on Tuesday, penning costumed characters and other tip seekers to painted zones within its plazas.
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After complaints last summer over the proliferation of topless painted women, known as desnudas, Mr. de Blasio said he would consider removing the plazas.
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And it would give money to neighborhood community boards to invest in local projects like bike lanes, bus depots, public plazas and station repairs.
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It is, of course, worthwhile to study their structures, to resurrect them digitally and even raise them in the metropolitan plazas of the West.
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In the summer of 33, public plazas in Chahuites, Mexico, began overflowing with Central Americans who bore open wounds, foot blisters, and decrepit knapsacks.
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One of the only places to sit, other than those banks' plazas, is a small park inside the avenue's ribbon, at East 96th Street.
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He is a sculptor by trade, the creator of the kinds of statues that stipple the stadiums, plazas and rotundas celebrating our sports icons.
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Today, Hissho has counters in more than 1,100 locations in 41 states, including in national chains like Kroger, university food halls and medical plazas.
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Otherwise, just stop in the central plazas of a village to ask for artesanía; this will almost always bring you to someone's home studio.
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The suspect, a white male in his 30s, fired shots into shopping plazas and busy intersections, injuring at least 21 people and killing seven.
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Government reports boasted that seven hundred thousand "drug personalities" surrendered in the first two months in mass ceremonies in malls, city plazas, and auditoriums.
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It is a universe of dilapidated stairwells, cramped apartments and barren concrete plazas, and all are in the misère, as the French would say.
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Minimalism ratified in art a mid-century shift to the sprawling new world of superhighways, airports, corporate plazas, malls, and big-chambered contemporary museums.
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As the centerpiece of the overhaul, officials closed off five blocks of Broadway to motor vehicles and created two acres (0.8 hectare) of pedestrian plazas.
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By rerouting traffic and painting the road surface, cities have created space for park plazas and local culture where before there was only dull asphalt.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, signed the Council's bill, which allowed the New York City Transportation Department to create new rules for pedestrian plazas.
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Community nonprofit organizations are now able to apply to create plazas in their neighborhoods, and a number of them have sprung up in scattered areas.
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He left for Brooklyn, to run the business improvement district in Dumbo, where, notably, he built one of the city's first street-level pedestrian plazas.
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The city has also seen record-breaking Hanukkah commemorations, such as the lighting of a massive menorah in both Brooklyn and Manhattan's Grand Army Plazas.
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On an island like Sicily—which isn't exactly blessed with the smooth marble plazas of middle America—you have to be fairly dedicated to persevere.
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Its latest iteration is more pedestrian-friendly, thanks to five plazas that span almost two acres of space formerly occupied by bumper-to-bumper traffic.
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Nearly overnight, pine groves have sprouted on the sidewalks, pop-up markets have settled into plazas, and chestnuts are roasting on your neighborhood halal cart.
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This north-south highway is the commercial spine of Hillsborough, with numerous shopping plazas, big-box stores, and individual and chain restaurants lining both sides.
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Protests marking international women's day took place around the world: "From the streets of Manila to the plazas of Santiago, Chile," the Associated Press reports.
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There are no plans to use it anywhere else at the Olympics, such as on the plazas where fans will gather or wait in lines.
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To bypass crowds, some duck down 19453½ Avenue, a midblock chain of plazas and public lobbies that run from West 51st and West 57th Streets.
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City officials said the rules were meant to restore order to the gleaming Disneyfied plazas that have transformed the seedy Times Square of the 1980s.
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It was New York's most ambitious stand yet against cars since the first pedestrian plazas were carved out of asphalt more than a decade ago.
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New residential developments across the city are installing significant works by artists both emerging and established in outdoor plazas, lobbies, common spaces and model units.
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Grand villas fronted onto tree-lined boulevards, and the verdant plazas and parks called to mind elegant green spaces in the capitals of Western Europe.
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And in recent days, a self-named "Green Tide" of women bedecked in green scarves have taken to plazas across the country to support legalization.
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A line of boarded-up clapboard shops selling tacky T-shirts lined the road in, and the central plazas were occupied only by the occasional dog.
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If even one of these sky plazas was open to the public, it would change the conversation dramatically about what a supertall could offer to locals.
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Wanda Commercial adopted the asset-light strategy over a year ago to seek funds for Wanda Plazas as revenue growth in the real estate sector slows.
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Along with parking, plazas and jogging trails, the project will fill about 60 acres; the Jones family has an option to build on the remaining land.
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The community's glass towers, public plazas, clustered housing, scattered parks and retail zones will be contained within 500 acres, leaving the rest as dedicated open space.
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Peer into "Ville Fantôme" (1996) and you'll find a swirl of English and French, tall industrial skyscrapers and too-elegant carparks, pinwheel gardens, and firework plazas.
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Many more people pack the 1,200 plazas, parks and other public areas across the island that have been outfitted with wireless routers, beginning in July 2015.
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While Guzman failed to wrest the city from the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, he succeeded in his later quests to conquer border plazas further west.
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Barcelona's system of superblocks — called "superilles" in Catalan — would go well beyond the pedestrian plazas that have sprouted up on the streets of New York City.
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"They&aposve shown that&aposs not sustainable," he said recently in a soft-spoken voice that contrasted with his fiery speeches in plazas around the nation.
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But in the same way downtown plazas and streets are being converted into pedestrian-only zones — consider Times Square and Herald Square in NYC, (soon) Ste.
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In Asunción, over 2000,290 people still live in an assortment of plazas, roadways, and parks that extend along the coast above the floodplain in the capital.
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Zoning regulations for Lower Manhattan have encouraged new developments to include public plazas and open spaces and locate subway stations inside buildings to improve pedestrian flow.
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Mr. Mulla manages the nursery that has been producing the turf and trees that will decorate stadiums, training sites and public plazas four years from now.
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Other examples can be found in strategies for remaking public places and plazas, such as for instance the recent developments of Times Square in New York.
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The Times sent dozens of photographers out to capture images of once-bustling public plazas, train stations and tourist meccas around the world, now virtually abandoned.
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Because plazas — unlike parks — never close, they can be an open invitation for misconduct and there are no dedicated officers to enforce the rules, they said.
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The plaza outside Dr. Hourizadeh's shop is the newest of 285 pedestrian plazas — slivers and slices here and there meant to reduce traffic congestion and pollution.
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" Also, he said, in a traffic-choked city, closing streets, rerouting drivers and building plazas sends a message: "Driving culture is not the predominant street culture.
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Pedestrian plazas have been created in Mexico City, Bogotá, Colombia, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with advice from former Bloomberg administration officials who set up the program.
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Conceptual plans for the project include "building raincoats" that spring out like giant canopies over urban plazas, and a tunnel system for trash collection by robots.
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Indian malls, evolving from ramshackle collections of stores to modern plazas, are seen as a gateway to brands that a growing middle class aspires to own.
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Petro energized young voters and drew millions to public plazas with fiery speeches vowing to improve the lives of poor Colombians long neglected by the political elite.
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Not our Florida suburb full of palm trees and shopping plazas, a place I had never wanted, but settled in because you were already there, establishing roots.
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Late into the day on Monday, demonstrators spread along main avenues, plazas and bridges around the city, and remained on the streets until past the 8 p.m.
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One of the goals was to change water guns from firing streams to "water bullets" that are similar to "jumping jet" fountains common in malls and plazas.
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Robert Indiana, the artist behind the famous LOVE series that has graced postage stamps, the plazas of famous cities and more, has died, according to multiple outlets.
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As sunshine spilled across the busy plazas on Tuesday afternoon, tourists occasionally stopped for a photo along 42nd Street, where more than a dozen characters were loitering.
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Once emblematic of a seedier era in the city, Times Square has been transformed into a family-friendly tourist destination with a corridor of crowded pedestrian plazas.
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The proposal includes plans for fitness facilities, an office tower, covered parking, a residential tower, open and covered plazas, a hotel, restaurants and retail, the statement said.
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The new commercial areas, Ms. Fishman said, are the result of replacing open plazas that were built when the area was filled with middle-class subsidized housing.
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In Bordeaux, France, decades of municipal policies have transformed a city center once dominated by parking lots and traffic into a paradise of walking paths and plazas.
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Funding for the $14.2 million bridge, connecting plazas and walkways was part of a $19.4 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant from the Department of Transportation.
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From pocket-size parks to plazas on reclaimed roadways to sidewalks dressed up with sleek benches and kiosks, the spaces make concrete-and-asphalt grids more inviting.
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Plazas are nearly empty, long corridors of Roman arches are blank, sharp perspective lines don't quite match up, which sends the ground plane tilting up and down.
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If you walk through Havana, you'll usually see groups of people huddled around certain plazas, parks and side streets with their cellphones held up to their faces.
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Officials said the proceeds would be used to finance the city's commitment to spend up to $50 million on improving public plazas and streets in East Midtown.
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These blink-and-miss-them bits of greenery — called "street seats" — have spread along commercial corridors, though they are often overlooked or overshadowed by sprawling pedestrian plazas.
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The day after the Champions League final, as Liverpool's victorious fans wandered bleary-eyed around Madrid's plazas, Pochettino did not fly back to London with his team.
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Before that, cartels were known as 'plazas,' headed by plaza bosses and operating more locally—usually paid off with a cut of the drugs they were trafficking.
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Lee Miglin, the son of an Illinois coal miner, became an influential developer and is credited for inventing the concept of a "business park," those ubiquitous office plazas.
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Under Mayor Bloomberg, New York embarked on a plan to reclaim 180 acres of roads from vehicles — and turn them into things like bike lanes and public plazas.
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In August, Mr. de Blasio encountered a backlash when he raised the idea of removing the pedestrian plazas in Times Square after complaints about barely clothed entertainers there.
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The CJNG has been working hard with the help of its local allies to undermine the Sinaloa cartel's control of the smuggling plazas stretching from Tijuana to Juarez.
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The city envisioned the project as creating two distinct kinds of spaces - pedestrian plazas and sidewalks - with the bollards used mostly to surround and protect the pedestrian zones.
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Last month, Wang Jianlin, Wanda's chairman, said the company had greatly reduced its debt and would use its "limited cash" in developing Wanda Plazas, the group's core business.
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Tens of thousands of protesters took over a major highway and several avenues and plazas in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, demanding a referendum to recall President Nicolás Maduro.
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Sculptures by Henry Moore, one of the most influential and celebrated British artists of the 20th century, are on public display in parks and plazas around the world.
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"We saw the barren, windswept plazas that were being built downtown, and we knew we were racing the bulldozer," Mr. Stanford told The New York Times in 4.83.
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With attractive Art Nouveau architecture and prime locations in plazas, parks and scenic overlooks throughout the city, these popular kiosks are natural gathering points from sunup to sundown.
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The hunters have come after them, stalking the predators in settings like strip mall parking lots, housing tract cul-de-sacs, and plazas in the shadow of skyscrapers.
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The multilayered program to harvest information from Uighurs and other Muslims begins on the edges of towns and cities across Xinjiang in buildings that look like toll plazas.
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Soon, at Mr. Kelly's recommendation, pedestrian plazas that had replaced roadway along a five-block stretch of Broadway were guarded by three-foot-tall, stainless-steel cylindrical bollards.
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He said the police were worried about intentional attacks, accidents that sent cars toward pedestrians, and confused drivers trying to turn onto plazas that used to be streets.
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Con tan solo 342.000 plazas laborales formales nuevas creadas, casi tres cuartas partes de los jóvenes que ingresaron a la vida productiva no pudieron encontrar un empleo formal.
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It recommended that the Buildings Department, which currently investigates only when prompted by complaints, investigate the plazas proactively, in addition to maintaining a more streamlined database of them.
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For example, at 17A, the answer to "Place to pay the going rate?" is TOLL PLAZAS, but if you read just the circled letters, we have a TOPAZ.
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Members of the caravan began arriving in recent days in Ciudad Tecún Umán, a Guatemalan border city, where they slept in migrant shelters and in plazas and parks.
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Mr. Cohen envisions a national network of Cuberts in office lobbies and public plazas, or open spaces in retail malls — any place a vendor might encounter hungry people.
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Related: Paramilitaries Are Still Murdering Zapatistas in Mexico In 2000 the subcomandante led a caravan of the Zapatista indigenous leadership around Mexico where he spoke to packed plazas.
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More than 1,000 asylum seekers are already camped out there in public plazas and in shelters, waiting to legally present themselves at the San Ysidro port of entry.
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After World War II, urban renewal pushed 300,000 people, about half of them black, from their homes nationwide to build new high-rises, civic plazas, and office buildings.
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The women, usually retirees, meet at dusk and dawn in public squares, plazas or parks and perform synchronized dance routines to deafeningly-loud music -- often with costumes or props.
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The multipurpose park, built atop boldly intersecting concrete slabs, will feature plazas, gardens, cafes, urban farms, a sculpture park, an amphitheater, lookouts, boat launches, and an environmental education center.
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The multipurpose park, built atop boldly intersecting concrete slabs, will feature plazas, gardens, cafes, urban farms, a sculpture park, an amphitheater, lookouts, boat launches, and an environmental education center.
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They're then grouped together in arbitrary categories (plazas with flagpoles, bridges at sunset), and Katchadourian connects the groups with an elaborate network of dotted red lines on the wall.
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Even today, metal and concrete barriers are strategically placed around public buildings and plazas in Lower Manhattan and elsewhere to deter stray vehicles and guard against possible terror attacks.
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A San Francisco design firm invented the parklet, and New York City became a model for carving out small plazas from unused odds and ends on the city's streets.
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One gargantuan project is the city's plaza program, which has created a series of pedestrianized plazas across the city by converting unused pockets of land or changing traffic patterns.
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On the day members of the national group rallied in Las Vegas in 2018, marchers in other cities flooded streets and plazas across the country in unexpectedly high numbers.
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Confusion quickly turned to anger and desperation, as tens of thousands of civilians — young and old alike — gathered in the grand plazas of Prague, Bratislava and other major cities.
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As of last year, through a partnership with Vienna Tourism, the program is also streamed to plazas in four selected cities, this year's being Barcelona, Warsaw, Seoul and Beijing.
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The Trump Organization owns or licenses its name to dozens of properties around the world, including several Trump Towers, Trump Plazas, Trump International Hotels, and Trump International Golf Clubs.
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The lower price of gas made it a lot less expensive to go on road trips with friends to travel to nearby cities, mountain ranges, shopping plazas, and more.
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The Dutch have learned to build parks, plazas and playgrounds that double as flood-management systems, so that investments in ecological security improve the quality of everyday social life, too.
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The plazas have also helped attract more than 2100 groups of foreign officials curious to find out about the Dutch city's innovative approach to building resilience to climate change impacts.
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The youngest of four children to Doug Ford Sr. and his wife Diane, Rob Ford grew up in Etobicoke, a suburb of Toronto replete with leafy enclaves and strip plazas.
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Hasta ahora la forma más accesible para conectarse era el wifi en plazas y espacios públicos, pero ahora los cubanos podrán conectarse a internet desde la comodidad de sus hogares.
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Sipping the chocolate, I think about Oaxaca and feel ever so slightly warmer as I imagine walking its cobbled streets, past its painted houses, its shaded plazas and Baroque churches.
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Otherwise, the protests caused few disturbances as demonstrators descended on statehouses and Immigration and Customs Enforcement buildings, and gathered in plazas and in parks, where they danced, chanted and sang.
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They removed 2,100 obstructed-view seats in center field over the winter, and created plazas — the kind of gathering spots in the outfield that have become popular at other ballparks.
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Life is lived out on the streets, in plazas and parks, in the mercados and commercial strips, in the elite colonias and poor barrios that spread far into the mountains.
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In addition, a "public realm improvement fund" would pay for widening sidewalks and creating pedestrian plazas in some places, like the eastern edge of Pershing Square, opposite Grand Central Terminal.
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Its goal is to combat the chokehold of vacant 4-million-pound oligarch flats through initiatives like the "Bankside Urban Forest," which develops fallow space into pocket parks, pathways, plazas.
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In exchange for projects like larger office towers, there are more than 500 shady plazas, extra-wide sidewalks and pedestrian arcades in the city, known as privately owned public spaces.
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Before making its way to the World Trade Center campus, the exhibit was already on display in New York as part of the Garment District Alliance's Art on the Plazas program.
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The crackdown worked: The small knots of plastic tarps and cardboard shanties that had dotted El Bordo vanished, as did small tent cities that had been set up in nearby plazas.
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Another, which students Kola Ofoman, Millie Yoshida, and Ryan Hughes called the "Department of Triangles," would add ADA-friendly bus service to underutilized public triangles and plazas throughout Manhattan, and Brooklyn.
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On any given night within Cartagena's colonial ramparts overlooking the Carribean sea, dozens of women, some barely looking 18, can be see standing in plazas wearing skimpy dresses and high heals.
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Nowadays, whenever I'm in Berlin, my daily routine revolves around Wilmersdorf, a quiet neighborhood of playgrounds and leafy plazas that some Berliners deride as burgerlich — a word connoting haut-bourgeois complacency.
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To help accommodate foot traffic, they are adding more pedestrian plazas across the city, expanding the presence of a streetscape feature first embraced by the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
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But maybe loving the piazzas of Rome is radical in a world where most public space consists of sterile concrete plazas decorated with the "lollipop" trees that he so passionately disdains.
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Companies that run major highway service plazas in Japan go to considerable lengths to ensure you never will, as they compete for the coveted Japan Toilet Award from the transportation ministry.
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Now it takes over an entire city: Madrid has been awash with Liverpool and Spurs fans since Wednesday; roads have been closed and hotels requisitioned and sun-bleached plazas staked out.
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A few years later came Rockefeller Center, a landmark between West 22019th and West 20193st Streets in Midtown that today has offices, stores, television studios, plazas, and an iconic ice rink.
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NEW YORK — From the streets of Manila to the plazas of Santiago, Chile, people around the world marked International Women's Day on Sunday with calls to end exploitation and increase equality.
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THE VISIONARYOver three terms, the data-driven billionaire mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, had a potent effect on New York: development on every waterfront, pedestrian plazas everywhere, and no smoking in bars.
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Yet public plazas, like at the office building at 888 Seventh Avenue, offer breathing room, often enlivened by playful sculptures like the blue figure and silver egg at 1330 Sixth Avenue.
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Jacobs's book transformed urban planning, throwing out the giant housing projects and sterile plazas that characterized the urban renewal movement in favor of a vision of a bustling, pedestrian-friendly city.
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But compared to the high-rise housing projects and sterile plazas of the 1950s and 1960s, Jacobs's vision of a city built around people and everyday life is far more inviting.
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Among them were public schools, hospitals, low-income housing projects, a commuter train, the island's water and sewerage system, and its highway authority, which operates traffic signals, toll plazas and highway lighting.
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As weakened groups compete with newcomers for lucrative trafficking territories, or plazas, some areas of the country have become hotspots for violence — border cities, and their entryways to the US, in particular.
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The group organized men and some women to run security, with members of the security committee taking turns keeping watch and patrolling while people slept out in the open in town plazas.
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WHEN the Indiana Toll Road was opened in 221, there were eight pairs of travel plazas, or rest stops, along the 156-mile (250km) stretch linking Chicago to Ohio and points eastward.
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Lincoln Center Out of Doors Family Day (Saturday) There won't quite be dancing in the streets, but there will certainly be dancing in the Lincoln Center plazas at this free annual celebration.
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The chili queens transformed the plazas into a place for the community to share meals together at lantern-lit tables adorned with red and yellow paper mache flowers—into a nightly party.
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In town, a labyrinth of pedestrian streets has a diverse mix of housing like studio apartments and seven-bedroom Spanish colonial-style villas, a variety of local businesses and scenic public plazas.
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Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon's main thoroughfare, with its upscale stores, trendy restaurants and historic plazas, is accessible via the city's metro system, as is Monsanto Forest Park, one of Europe's largest parks.
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And our response so far — social distancing — not only runs up against our fundamental desires to interact, but also against the way we have built our cities and plazas, subways and skyscrapers.
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LOMÉ, Togo — Most of the brick-and-mortar shops in the Grand Marché de Hedzranawoe are shuttered, but plywood boutiques overflow the hallways and plazas that run through its geometric tiled corridors.
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The City Council voted on Thursday to allow the city's Transportation Department to create new rules for pedestrian plazas that could restrict Times Square's costumed characters and painted women to designated zones.
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Sometimes it pointed us to smaller city attractions we would have missed — statues, churches, plazas — and other times, it brought us to shops and bars that were populated by people who lived nearby.
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In La Guaira, on a recent sun-drenched morning, hundreds of people started to stream into one of the main plazas, many of them with the country's tricolor flag painted on their cheeks.
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The scene is standard for a 1113th-century Japanese panorama: a tidy town with elegant bridges, upright trees, and clusters of ordinary people going about their daily business in the streets and plazas.
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For years, the city and private property owners concerned about truck bombs and other attacks have been gradually installing thousands of metal posts to block vehicles from getting onto sidewalks and public plazas.
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Following the arrest of Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen in 2003, Guzman made a push to capture the lucrative Nuevo Laredo smuggling corridor (such corridors are often known as "plazas" in Mexico).
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Sports Illustrated is reporting that bottles, chairs, and smoke bombs were thrown as German fans clashed with Ukranian fans in plazas and streets before the match, set to kick off at 3pm EST.
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Consider the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, a mishmash of free music and dance performances, film screenings, family events and more in the plazas and parks around Lincoln Center through Aug. 12.
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For hours after the match, Mexico City resounded with the joyous cacophony of car horns, and euphoric fans turned public plazas into giant parties — waving Mexican flags, singing, chanting, spraying foam and drinking.
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Local tech companies and start-ups have "younger, health-conscious" workers who like to stay late to exercise and shop, said Ms. Brown, whose organization maintains pedestrian plazas next to the Flatiron Building.
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The couple, who met in 1993 at Loyola School, a private high school, knew each other only in passing but just enough for Ms. Plazas to develop a distant crush on Mr. Herrera.
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Shopping malls go all out to decorate their atriums and plazas with, say, Thanksgiving Parade-sized Snoopy statues or Pokémon-filled plastic cottages, while office building dress themselves up with intricate lighting displays.
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Within years, many of the city sidewalks and plazas, as well as those in its colonies, were carpeted in small pieces of limestone, some laid in patterns but others just in white stone.
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ROTTERDAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, nine "water plazas" have been created that soak up excess rainfall while offering people a green space to meet and children to play.
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Many public plazas displayed signs with long lists of forbidden activities, such as smoking, sleeping, sitting on the floor, radio playing, card playing, feeding birds, drinking alcohol, or using bikes, skateboards and roller blades.
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Since nearly half of the F.I.V.B. tour events take place nowhere near a natural beach but in temporary arenas in places like downtown plazas or city parks, organizers must ship in sand from elsewhere.
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Great Lakes World Trade Center bought the station and office tower in 1985 and developers planned to turn it and some adjacent real estate into offices, shopping plazas and parks that would attract development.
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It's what marks the difference between graffiti artists and other artists: their familiarity and proximity to the hustle that unfolds daily on the sidewalks, the TransMilenio bus stations, and the plazas or town squares.
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The marchers took over a major highway and several avenues in Caracas, the nation's capital, and poured into the city's plazas in an effort to gain momentum for a referendum to recall Mr. Maduro.
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In 1961, a major overhaul encouraged towers in plazas, and in the decades since, more than a thousand pages of amendments have been added and numerous changes to the zoning maps have been made.
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Chase is expected to buy unused development rights from nearby buildings, generating more than $203 million for public improvements to the streets, pedestrian plazas and sidewalks in the neighborhood under the new zoning plan.
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As subsequently elaborated, however — and illustrated in a 1961 magazine spread — Ellis Island becomes a multicolored, multiuse layer cake of plazas, domes and circular towers connected to ground level by giant cables painted gold.
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And a world where our cities are marked by harsh barricades instead of open plazas that invite art, music and conversation send a very disturbing message to those both inside and outside our country.
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Parent group Dalian Wanda owns more than 200 plazas and hotels across China, and has in recent years gone on an overseas acquisition spree which also includes a stake in Spanish football club Atletico Madrid.
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If Chapo is extradited, he predicts a spike in the level of violence, as different factions vie for control at home, while rival gangs step up their game in plazas in dispute outside of Sinaloa.
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Elements of Schwartz's plan made such a great case for removing cars from at least some of New York's streets that they led to the many pedestrian plazas you can see in the city today.
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Downtown plazas and the median strips of thoroughfares are crammed with temporary houses made of plywood, plastic sheets and corrugated steel, thrown together after heavy rains caused the worst flooding in more than three decades.
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By nightfall, the plazas were lively with San Antonians from every walk of life: businessmen and politicians who worked nearby, Anglos and Tejanos, and cowboys, tourists, and musicians who filled the Texas air with song.
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We found ourselves in Kotor, along with thousands of passengers from a Celebrity Cruises ship snapping pictures of the stray (but evidently well-fed) cats that stalk the cobblestone plazas and nap on stone staircases.
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The city is considering adding bollards on sidewalks around Times Square to match those around pedestrian plazas, the Police Department's deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, John J. Miller, told the City Council on Monday.
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The bollards are removable — so fire trucks and billboard maintenance vehicles — can enter the pedestrian plazas, and planted just under the surface of the street so as not to interfere with the subway system below.
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Mr. O'Shea and Mr. Niland did not know what to expect as they prepared to sleep in one of four designated plazas in Times Square along with some 900 others to raise awareness about homelessness.
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Shopping mall owner Simon Property Group, for example, announced a $4 billion investment in May that would upgrade a host of its properties, introducing hotels, outdoor plazas and residences to their brick-and-mortar locations.
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Thousands of Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. stretched out on rain-soaked sidewalks, benches and public plazas in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, worn down by another day's march under a blazing sun.
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Even as Pinera spoke Thursday morning, many protesters had already begun to gather again in the central plazas and downtown streets of Santiago, banging pots and calling for further reforms under the blazing, spring-time sun.
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"They say that we don't need transit because once driverless cars are here, everyone will just be in a driverless car," Sweat told me as we stood in one of downtown Phoenix's beautiful sculpture-strewn plazas.
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Indian malls, which are evolving from ramshackle collections of stores to modern plazas complete with air conditioning and family entertainment centers, are seen as a gateway to brands that a growing middle class aspires to own.
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"The entry of (more) Wanda Plazas will significantly raise the business standard in Hunan cities, stimulate consumption, increase stable tax income and create a lot of jobs in the service industry," Wanda said in a statement.
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The most tangible vanguard of that influence are the monumental art pieces, which, instead of disappearing into the playa, have begun to show up in plazas, parks, museums and galleries across the United States and beyond.
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They advocated utopian, tower-in-the-park developments, high-rises in antiseptic plazas, with housing neatly cordoned off from offices, and highways bulldozed through old neighborhoods to whisk people who could afford cars out of town.
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According to Mr. Zambada, the Sinaloa cartel operated in at least a dozen plazas across Mexico — from ones on the west coast, like Guerrero and Jalisco, to those along the northern border, like Sonora and Chihuahua.
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Palatial hotels offer a glimpse into the city's storied past, while a revitalized waterfront district refreshes the longstanding Greek concept of the agora, with modern Greek restaurants and grand plazas offering new venues for cultural development.
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But neighborhood groups often lack money for upkeep, so the city set aside more than $1.4 million a year for maintenance, something proponents say is essential if plazas are to do more than change traffic patterns.
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En 2007, un gobierno socialista promulgó una Ley de Memoria Histórica que aceptaba las reivindicaciones de los deudos y prohibía los nombres y símbolos franquistas en calles y plazas, pero el Caudillo siguió en su basílica.
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This was the heyday of urban redevelopment, when city planners, doing what was then called "slum clearance," created high-density, low-cost public housing, often on a Corbusian model, with big towers on broad concrete plazas.
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La lucha de las madres de desaparecidos en las dictaduras del Cono Sur en los años setenta y ochenta; las campañas que denunciaban los asesinatos de mujeres en Ciudad Juárez fueron inspiración para tomar las plazas.
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But Waco has Chip and Jo, which is to say, they have the Magnolia effect: a small town made charming instead of claustrophobic, a haven for small businesses in place of never-ending big-box retail plazas.
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Every grassy median amid a wide boulevard makes me hear faint trolley bells, mass transit from an alternate timeline that runs alongside protected bike lanes and stops at pedestrian plazas where there used to be vast intersections.
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The downtown waterfronts that once ended in rotting wooden piers have become a network of lawns, water parks for kids, smooth paths for joggers and bikers, and plazas for sun-bathing that stretch out into the Hudson.
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Today, Wanda is not only the world's biggest commercial property developer, with 2600115 signature Wanda Plazas in China, but also the largest cinema operator, controlling more than 20143,22014 screens on four continents once current deals are closed.
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Originally founded as a teachers' college during boom times in the 22011s, the small, austere campus of concrete plazas and low-slung brick buildings now occupies 22010 acres of land deep on the South Side of Chicago.
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The plazas were considered the heart of the city, and during the day they acted as marketplace where vendors could sell their goods, as well as a sort of front porch to the city's government and church.
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And that's just for starters; several massive sculptures — one of a Viking ship, another of an abstracted Gjallarhorn (a version of which is frequently sounded during games) — are currently being assembled on the plazas outside the stadium.
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She made waves in December 2014 when she attempted to stage an open-mike performance in one of Havana's most emblematic plazas, a gesture for which she was arrested and had her passport confiscated for several months.
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Moving sometimes on foot and other times by hitching rides in passing cars and trucks, the migrants occasionally slept in shelters but more often bedded down on the central plazas and sidewalks of small towns and hamlets.
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An afternoon in Seville might include strolling down its sunbaked streets and alleyways, walking among bougainvillea and admiring its intricate, Moorish-inspired mudéjar architecture, or taking in an impromptu street show in one of its beautiful plazas.
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Murder became a form of messaging, a spectacle of sadism — bodies hanging from bridges, chopped in pieces, deposited in public plazas, each grisly crime scene a warning, a way of saying the cartel's violence knew no limits.
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The most vivid display of rainwater damage was a large crater that appeared on part of The Mall, one of the oldest and busiest thoroughfares in the city where colonial era-government buildings and shopping plazas are.
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Sixty years after the triumph of the revolution, Cubans are still not allowed to express their discontent in the public plazas, so they make the most of these virtual spaces to call for action by the government.
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She said that 26th and 29th Streets were selected for the new crosstown routes largely because they are wide enough to accommodate protected bike lanes and run continuously across without being cut off by parks or plazas.
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" Even a playful dance number about shopping becomes a sly critique of consumerist beauty standards, as characters frolic through malls and public plazas, belting out lyrics like, "The city will tell us what it is we lack.
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It was reported this week that the fast food chain would be suing the Italian city for 18 millions Euros after it was blocked from opening a restaurant on one of its historic plazas, the Piazza del Duomo.
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The district's maze of mud brick homes and narrow alleyways, which militants used for years to launch surprise attacks against police, have now been replaced by a shopping complex, events hall and expansive plazas dotted with palm trees.
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Earlier this month, de Blasio said the city would install more than 1,500 new barrier posts on sidewalks and plazas to protect pedestrians, after at least two instances last year of drivers killing people after mounting the curb.
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The move is part of a national trend, with tolling authorities adapting to E-ZPass or similar electronic toll systems, allowing participating drivers to whisk through toll plazas as the ever-shrinking cash-only lanes pile with traffic.
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Some of your friends may even have gotten drunk here in a hostel during spring break, or others may have had the fortune of visiting the incredible lake of Lago de Atitlan, or the jungle plazas of Tikal.
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The developer said on Wednesday its core profit rose 14.8 percent to 17 billion yuan ($2.61 billion) in 2015, the first full year of its shift to an "asset-light" strategy that seeks outside investment to finance shopping plazas.
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This so-called hostile architecture has flourished in New York, even as the city has significantly added more public space in the last decade, including new plazas and parkland, pedestrian areas once used for cars and reclaimed industrial waterfront.
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When Mr. Ross began the process of finding a piece several years ago, he first turned to five artists who are known for working in public plazas — and whom he declined to name — and asked them for detailed proposals.
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United States, No. 16-402, will apply the Fourth Amendment, drafted in the 18th century, to a world in which people's movements are continually recorded by devices in their pockets and cars, by toll plazas and by transit systems.
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A neighborhood of 216 homes, 216 shops, and 272 bars was leveled six-odd decades ago to create the windswept flagstone plazas that stretch wide and empty between narrow brutalist towers with narrow brutalist names: Agency 3, Agency 4.
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In 2016, New York City's Department of Transportation adopted rules for its pedestrian plazas — 59 are open, 18 more are on the way — after complaints of costumed Elmos and other vendors aggressively seeking tips in the Times Square plaza.
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New York City has built more than 70 pedestrian plazas in the last 10 years, and is adding more through its seasonal street program with the idea of activating public spaces in a vibrant way during the warmer months.
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El tránsito en la ciudad fluye más rápido, el diseño de las estaciones de tren más recientes es futurístico, los juegos en las plazas infantiles son coloridos y hay un nuevo sistema de bicis públicas que se alquilan digitalmente.
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The military, apparently still largely loyal to Maduro, deployed tanks and tear gas against civilians who poured into plazas and public spaces at Guaidó's call, and military weapons are rumored to have "disappeared" in order to arm pro-Maduro paramilitaries.
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The National Association of City Transportation Officials opposes the bill, warning that cities may not be able to control the number of bikes and scooters on their streets or restrict their speeds in popular pedestrian areas such as boardwalks and plazas.
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Though his organization hasn't made much headway in gaining control over a larger portion of the drug-growing areas in Sinaloa, it appears to have had more success in taking control of smuggling plazas and fuel theft rackets in Sonora.
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Self-convened local assemblies, or cabildos, are being held all over the country, often in parks, plazas and even on sidewalks, to analyze the roots of the discontent, to prioritize issues and to discuss how to create a new Constitution.
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Such payments can reach tens of millions of dollars a year for a large drug trafficking organization, thus providing the group a large financial incentive to attempt to control drug-smuggling routes known as plazas — even if this means protracted fighting.
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Now Cubans mainly access the web at Wi-Fi hotspots in parks and plazas throughout the country although the country's telecoms monopoly ETECSA has said it is working on rolling out home access and mobile internet for all the population.
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Sure, you could lose hours to tiny cups of espresso on sloped tables on the periphery of cobblestoned plazas, meet every Monday at El Prado, or marvel at the hopes held by the Omikuji, tiny paper fortunes at Shinto shrines.
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The $750 million center was designed by Renzo Piano to reflect the community ethos of an ancient Greek agora; Piano raised the land to create a sloping park with shaded gardens, grand plazas and views of the sea and the Acropolis.
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Toll plazas are already patrolled by the state-controlled Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, train stations by the state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department, and airports by the Port Authority Police Department, run by New York and New Jersey.
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Just minutes after checking into a hotel in Colonia Roma, an eclectic bohemian neighborhood of cafes, galleries and plazas, I head out into this confounding city, to see it on foot, from the ground, to touch it and smell it.
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Wanda Commercial, the property arm of Dalian Wanda Group owned by China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, adopted the asset-light strategy over a year ago to seek funds for Wanda Plazas as revenue growth in the real estate sector slows.
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The Confederate monuments were erected in plazas throughout the South primarily during the height of Jim Crow rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when black Southerners were nonpersons, with no say in how such public spaces were used.
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De las plazas llenas a los gabinetes nacionales con más ministras mujeres que hombres; del boom de las series protagonizadas por mujeres en Netflix al giro feminista de Star Wars, el feminismo es a la vez mainstream y agenda política ineludible.
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They've marched on the highways and town plazas, through fumigations, bombings, beatings, and massacres, all for the comprehensive long-term alternative development plan Aquileo and other regional leaders have been hashing out with negotiators from the national government these past two years.
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And in a recent battle for a lucrative zone of tourist attractions and sunny pedestrian plazas, a place filled with people willing to pay $000 for a plain vanilla cone, no sprinkles, the king of ice cream land has lost to an upstart.
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Fabricio Castrejón, the lead coordinator of training projects for Mexico City's civil protection agency, told me that they were part of a set of safety regulations decreed in 2002, and that they began appearing soon afterward on sidewalks, streets, playgrounds and plazas.
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Coincidentally, this is the same reason that the Sinaloa cartel began its efforts to wrest control of border plazas controlled by other groups in 2003 such as Nuevo Laredo, where it failed, and then later Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, where it succeeded.
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If, between now and Sunday, you're crossing one of the plazas at Lincoln Center — exiting a matinee of "My Fair Lady," say, or a Dance Theater of Harlem show — and you notice some especially bold public displays of affection, don't be shocked.
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"I sold my hair to feed my girl," Ms. Hernández said, pulling back her locks to reveal a shaved head underneath, adding that wigmakers now walk the plazas of Cúcuta where many Venezuelans congregate, wearing signs advertising that they give cash for hair.
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Outside Atlanta on Friday, Jon Ossoff offered a decidedly un-Sanders-like vision of the future in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, a conservative-leaning patchwork of office plazas and upscale malls, where voters attended his campaign events wearing golf shirts and designer eyewear.
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HONG KONG, March 13 (Reuters) - Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties Co Ltd said on Wednesday its core profit rose 14.8 percent in 2015, the first full year of its shift to an "asset-light" strategy that seeks outside investment to finance shopping plazas.
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The letter from the NYC organizations emphasizes how recently established plazas like Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights have already been important post-election rally hubs, and how initiatives such as Summer Streets or mass bicycling events reinforce city-wide relationships with public space.
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Transit has never been a passion for Mr. de Blasio, and while the mayor earned praise from transportation advocates for his Vision Zero safety plan, he was criticized after casually suggesting that the city tear out the open-air pedestrian plazas in Times Square.
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The permanent public work located in Wynwood is more than just a dressed up skate park, as Schoultz's intention was to create a space that opens dialogue, calling back to the plazas he grew up skating, the ones that cultivated community throughout the 80s–90s.
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The suggestion — supported by Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, who said he wanted to "dig the whole damn thing up" — was ultimately dropped, but the comments alarmed Mr. White and others because plazas have long been viewed as a way to reduce pedestrian crashes.
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Watching the quivering of the five-foot-high 1941 stabile "Aluminum Leaves, Red Post," whose clawlike base recalls the gargantuan Calders in public plazas from Seattle to Grand Rapids, Michigan, is like seeing a new side of an old friend you've been taking for granted.
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They are on sidewalks, along private buildings, and in the city's network of more than 550 privately owned public spaces — plazas, arcades, atriums — that are required to be open to the public by their owners in return for the right to build larger towers.
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To the extent that the nature of the place dictates the amount of protection speech gets, the place with the most protection is the so-called "public forum," which includes places that traditionally have been used for speech, such as sidewalks, streets, parks, and plazas.
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With well-intentioned pizzazz, MOMA provides visitors to the show with headsets for three-and-a-half-minute, self-guided virtual-reality tours of "Ville Fantôme," allowing them to jump from one place to another—to plazas, roofs—and to look up, down, and around.
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Pfeiffer, an 18-year-old senior, said he now scans restaurants and shopping plazas for potential danger and found himself looking over his shoulder in school hallways when classes resumed last month after the deadliest mass shooting at a high school in U.S. history.
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" As early as May of 2016 MUNCHIES reported on an unsubstantiated tweet from Ramon Muchacho, mayor of the Caracas District of Chacao in Venezuela, in which he said, "People are hunting dogs and cats in the streets, and pigeons in the plazas to eat.
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" — Nell McShane Wulfhart 36 Hours in Santiago, Chile "An afternoon in Seville might include strolling down its sunbaked streets and alleyways, walking among bougainvillea and admiring its intricate, Moorish-inspired mudéjar architecture, or taking in an impromptu street show in one of its beautiful plazas.
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The street has always been more a state of mind than a mere physical space, one that has defied the unbending Manhattan grid for two centuries as it snaked uptown and that even now, defying its name, is being narrowed to accommodate pedestrian plazas.
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The greatest success of parks and plazas is not in some efficient, one-to-one mapping of activities to facilities, or in the controlled consumption of culture, but in the ways that, as a matter of policy and design, they encourage the taking of liberties.
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As head of the Guadalajara cartel, he's got a series of operations running under his rule (they're called plazas), friends in the highest seats of the Mexican government, and he's just ordered the torture and murder of an American DEA agent, Kiki Camarena (Michael Peña).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City will install more than 1,500 new barrier posts on sidewalks and plazas to protect pedestrians from vehicles after at least two instances last year of drivers killing people after mounting the curb, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday.
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Mexican criminal organizations require extensive personnel and vast caches of assault rifles and other weapons — 853 percent of which come from the US — to defend their "plazas" (strategic points along the drug supply chain) from other gangs and from the Mexican police and military.
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LISBON — As Portugal lost its colonies around the globe, the country's nearly six centuries of influence ensured a legacy of distinctive decorative style: delicate filigree jewelry, colorful azulejo tiles, intricate wrought iron work and black-and-white patterned stone sidewalks and praças, or plazas.
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Any good dog owner should know that "the law of civility" requires them to bring a bag on walks, but Chuck's slippery slope scenario, in which the plazas and homes of New York City are going to be full of figurative poop, is a little much.
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They had just met with Charles Reiss, a senior vice president of the Trump Organization, who tried to persuade them that a Trump-branded globe would fall within the definition of "ornamental fountains or statuary," which are permitted by law to obstruct some views at public plazas.
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PUBLIC ART OF LOWER MANHATTAN: AN OUTDOOR GALLERY HIDING IN PLAIN VIEW (Sunday) The roster of artists whose large-scale works dot the plazas and parks of the Financial District includes many you would see at institutions like the Met or the Museum of Modern Art.
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Although they portray bustling urbanity, the color images in "Daido Tokyo" convey a poetic air of abandonment and deep solitude: empty plazas and downtrodden back alleys; peeling posters and lifeless window mannequins; industrial pipes and medusas of jumbled electrical wires; a bum passed out on the street.
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Kleban owns several major retail/office plazas in Fairfield's downtown, including the Fairfield Center building, which houses a Fairfield University bookstore, as well as a Starbucks, a Victoria's Secret and other national chain stores, and at least 2000 shopping centers along the Black Rock Turnpike commercial corridor.
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That was when Ator pointed an AR-style rifle toward the rear window of his car and fired on the trooper, starting a terrifying police chase as Ator sprayed bullets into passing cars, shopping plazas and killed a U.S. Postal Service employee while hijacking her mail truck.
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Another study looked at the introduction of the E-ZPass electronic tolling system in New York City and found it "greatly reduced" traffic congestion around tolling plazas, resulting in reduced incidents of premature births and low birth weights for mothers who lived within 2 kilometers of the plaza.
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Around that same time, sociologist William H. Whyte was studying the interactions with public spaces, and his research prompted another amendment in 1975 that set new standards for the "bonus plazas" that would make them more useable by the public, rather than just sprawls of concrete with lonely benches.
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Traveling back to Seoul after the New Year's holiday, I noticed that at City Hall and the National Assembly, at the plazas, the subway stations, and even on billboards, tent occupations and rallies and other signs of dissent were on display, flourishing everywhere even in the freezing temperatures.
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Guzmán's exit has also coincided with the two most violent years in Mexico's history, which many observers say is a result of the law enforcement pursuit of crime bosses via the Kingpin strategy – which creates power vacuums and violent internal power struggles for the control of routes and plazas.
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Regardless, from the 1860s to the late 6003s, Mexican women referred to as the chili queens created a lively outdoor bazaar in San Antonio's plazas—including its most famous, the Alamo—serving Mexican–American specialties like chili con carne, tamales, and enchiladas from twilight until dawn the next morning.
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The chili queens—referred to as "bright, bewitching creatures" in a story that appeared in the San Antonio Express from 1894—brought a jovial and carnival-esque atmosphere, and the open-air environment of the plazas allowed the queens to throw nightly chili festivities under a starry sky.
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If well-funded initiatives like the street service were adopted everywhere — and the private sector was a partner, not the decider (I am in no way advocating for a privatization of public spaces like parks, plazas and streets), it could radically change the way streets are designed and built.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has embarked on an unprecedented campaign to put the stamp of the State Police on New York City, rerouting troopers to city airports and toll plazas from upstate areas that rely on them and bewildering some of the officials charged with carrying out his orders.
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But as he noted when he addressed the New Orleans Council on this matter two years ago, many people, including African-Americans, who were voiceless when the city stocked its plazas and thoroughfares with monuments to white supremacy have voices now and deserve to be heard on this matter.
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St. James Street was a clogged artery of cars, trucks and buses, a revolving elbow-to-elbow mass of people going through food stalls, bars, clothing stores, haberdasheries, computer depots, supermarkets, carwashes and plazas reverberating with the earsplitting sounds of hawking vendors, chattering voices and full-volume music.
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TIMES SQUARE PLAZAS Manhattan, 2009-16 Snohetta Closing off a section of Broadway in 2009 has been a boon for the area: Travel times improved on Seventh Avenue by 4 percent even as pedestrian counts have grown as high as 480,20013 a day from 320,000 a decade earlier.
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Come 2010, the event had spilled beyond the reaches of the relatively small park — at its height, NYFW included nearly 300 shows — and after years of disagreements between the fashion industry and Bryant Park's management over its expansion, the event was moved to tents within the plazas of Lincoln Center.
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In the new neighborhoods along the northeastern edge of the city, one can see the emergence of a new global class, distributed unevenly and erratically building a type of vertical living that is in sharp contrast to the architecture of the city center with its many alleys, plazas, and commercial streets.
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As you know, 2140 Broadway was designed between 1960 and 1964 by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill under the direction of Gordon Bunshaft, the firm's chief architect, and was one of the first projects to conform to the 1961 Zoning Resolution that incentivized developers to incorporate public plazas into their office-building plans.
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"Parking has been this sacred cow that we couldn't touch—and now we can touch it," says Gabe Klein, who has headed the transportation departments in Chicago and Washington, DC. He sees enormous potential—all that paved-over space suddenly freed up for houses and schools, plazas and playgrounds, or just about anything.
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You make the stations visible with art-covered canopies to protect them from sun and rain, and outfit them with furniture as comfortable as urban living rooms, adding street plazas and gardens and cafes and free wifi to make the whole experience a billion times better than the subway ever will be.
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But as a dreary stroll down Park Avenue will remind you, Modernism swiftly became a gutless orthodoxy, its high ideals devolving into the rote features of the International Style, a repetitive and predictable series of gestures (curtain walls or ribbon windows, recessed plinths, decorative piloti, windswept plazas, ornamental lawns and flat shimmering pools).
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Instead of charging drivers who are stopped at toll plazas, the authority will use sensors and cameras to automatically charge cars that have been equipped with E-ZPass; those without it will have their license plates recorded by camera, and a bill will be mailed to the registered owner of the vehicle.
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Starting at noon, outside on the plazas, carvers will create ice sculptures that families can vote on (their responses will be entered in a raffle for free tickets to "The King and I"), and indoors, children can boogie in one of three hourlong sessions of Silent Disco (at noon and 2:30 and 5 p.
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I left Calakmul the following day and drove east, stopping at Becán, where a series of interconnected plazas and public buildings suggest the shape of quotidian Maya life, and at Chicanná, once Becán's aristocratic suburb, now another abandoned stone settlement in the forest, where heavily ornamented mansions reveal a world as stratified as our own.
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"In the beginning, there was a good deal of vandalism around the plants, stealing the plants," said Laura Hansen, the executive director of the Neighborhood Plaza Partnership, an offshoot of the Horticultural Society of New York that has a $1.2-million-a-year contract from the city to maintain 16 plazas outside Midtown Manhattan.
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Everyone in and outside of City Hall that I spoke to for this story stressed the fact that homelessness preceded Super Bowl City and would not be solved by all the steps taken before and during the Super Bowl to house the people that live on the plazas downtown, and in the rest of San Francisco.
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There was a brief period roughly between 2011 and 2014, after cigarettes were banned in the city's public parks and plazas and before the strictures around pot smoking began to loosen, when you could amble around the city and pretty much only encounter the smell of smoke when and if you had the misfortune of walking past a fire.
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The city's Department of Transportation is well aware that cutting the number of precious parking spots — even in a city with millions of spaces — will infuriate drivers, some of whom already see the agency as bent on banishing cars as the city continues to install miles of bike lanes and turn parts of thoroughfares into pedestrian plazas.
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Whether it's something like dynamic road closures for on-demand pedestrian plazas, or directing people with different mobility needs to the fastest route for an event, or helping them discover a new business that just opened; balancing people's needs with the city's -in real time- will be an exciting new area for exploration, blending Urban Planning with User Experience Design and Behavioral Science.
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Or you can have places actually made for teenagers, preferably involving teenagers in the design process — things like skateboard parks; plazas with activities like music and games for teens instead of young children; places designed to help teens interact with each other and the space itself in cool ways (ice-breakers, conversation starters, and "show-off" opportunities); spaces with food as an option.
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It was a dream that was over almost before it began and has since been condemned by all sides: by urbanists who came to hate the uniformity of its structures and their negation of street life; by minority communities who increasingly recognized these places as artificial ghettos, without the distinctive character and variety of real neighborhoods; and by the city officials who had to police the plazas.
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In 1977, curator and art historian Klaus Bussmann, knowing full well that contemporary art was a niche enterprise in Münster — a mid-size, predominantly Catholic city — and that many of its residents were downright hostile to such art, nevertheless got the idea to mount a provocative exhibition in parks, plazas, and other outdoor spaces, where citizens and other visitors would be confronted by contemporary art on a daily basis.
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The son of Mexican immigrants, Mr. Hernandez grew up in a working-class community north of downtown and was drawn to the rough streets of Los Angeles: to thrift stores and auto repair shops, to weathered faces and downcast eyes, to office workers on lunch breaks in unwelcoming plazas and to worn-out folks in wrinkled clothes who sunbathe on the Long Beach sand within view of the oil derricks.
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The plan brings to mind the long history of deals the city has struck with developers to eke public space out of private developments, including the so-called POPS (Privately Owned Public Spaces) of the 1960s and subsequent decades, which, partly through City Hall's failure to provide oversight, produced many windswept plazas and heavily policed, frequently shuttered office building lobbies — unwelcoming sites that prioritized the privacy developers actually wanted all along.
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