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Western tradition, like that of Meso-and South America and much of the Middle East makes the point best of all: Mexico City's Zocalo has been a place of celebration and tumult since the age of the Aztecs; likewise Athens' agora, Rome's Forum and its necklace of squares; Renaissance patterns centered on cathedrals and piazze from the largest city states to the smallest village in a counterpart balance of commerce, discourse, and redemption.
Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011
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Western tradition, like that of Meso-and South America and much of the Middle East makes the point best of all: Mexico City's Zocalo has been a place of celebration and tumult since the age of the Aztecs; likewise Athens' agora, Rome's Forum and its necklace of squares; Renaissance patterns centered on cathedrals and piazze from the largest city states to the smallest village in a counterpart balance of commerce, discourse, and redemption.
Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011
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Western tradition, like that of Meso-and South America and much of the Middle East makes the point best of all: Mexico City's Zocalo has been a place of celebration and tumult since the age of the Aztecs; likewise Athens' agora, Rome's Forum and its necklace of squares; Renaissance patterns centered on cathedrals and piazze from the largest city states to the smallest village in a counterpart balance of commerce, discourse, and redemption.
Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011
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Western tradition, like that of Meso-and South America and much of the Middle East makes the point best of all: Mexico City's Zocalo has been a place of celebration and tumult since the age of the Aztecs; likewise Athens' agora, Rome's Forum and its necklace of squares; Renaissance patterns centered on cathedrals and piazze from the largest city states to the smallest village in a counterpart balance of commerce, discourse, and redemption.
Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011
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The Lilliputian roadster that can seat two people and a crate of beer may look agreeable parked up on Rome's baroque piazze and Paris' boulevards--maybe with a wing-mirror or two missing--yet DaimlerChrysler is now interested in bringing the mini "metrosexual" car to a country where size has always mattered : the SUV-obsessed U.S.
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With growing passion, he would sit in the taverns or the piazze and listen tirelessly to the master glass-blowers and fishermen, who
Dario Fo - Biography 1998
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Italy, the trains that blew up, the bombs in the piazze or the farcical court cases that have dragged on since then.
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In the first days of spring, from one end of the island to the other, the villagers assemble, and light great fires in the _piazze_ and at the cross-roads.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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Naples he was employed in churches, palaces, and piazze.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Il Vecchio Continente ha ormai vaporizzato il rimbalzo di inizio settimana, perdendo altri 250 miliardi di capitalizzazione, con ribassi superiori ai cinque punti percentuali praticamente su tutte le piazze europee.
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