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4 unusual facts about Public Square


Center for Public History and Digital Humanities

In 2005, the Greater Cleveland RTA began building a bus rapid transit line along Euclid Avenue from Public Square to University Circle and then to East Cleveland.

Public Square

While it initially served as a common pasture for settlers' animals, less than a century later Public Square was the height of modernity, when in 1879 it became the first street in the world to be lit with electric street lights, arc lamps designed by Cleveland native Charles F. Brush.

In collaboration with landscape architect James Corner, the city has begun to explore concepts for a redesign of the square.

Public Square is often the site of political rallies and civic functions, including a free annual Independence Day concert by the Cleveland Orchestra.


Randolph Mitchell House

It is one of four National Register-listed properties in Reading Township, along with St. Joseph's Catholic Church near Somerset, the home of General Philip Sheridan's family in Somerset, and Somerset's public square.

Vörösmarty tér

Vörösmarty tér or Vörösmarty square is a public square in the Budapest city centre at the northern end of Váci utca.


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Big Art Group

Retelling a contemporary version of the Oresteia, The People was simultaneously projected and broadcast into the public square of the Italian town of Polverigi.

Castello Cavalcanti

In a quiet Italian village in 1955, American Formula One driver Jed Cavalcanti (Jason Schwartzman), who is struggling in last place in a race through the countryside, crashes his car in the middle of the public square.

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is a non-partisan, Roman Catholic, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in the United States, which aims to promote "the fullness of the Catholic social tradition in the public square".

Chunxilu

The central area contains a small public square with a statue of Father of the Nation, Mr Sun Yat-sen, next to a Häagen-Dazs shop.

Clunia

The center of Romana cities, where the cardo maximus and decumanus maximus crossed, frequently receiving the forum of the city, a public square surrounded by porticos.

Liane Augustin

She died in 1978, in Vienna, and was memorialized on 26 May 2009 as a co-namesake with Marx Augustin of the Augustinplatz in Vienna, a public square bounded by the Neustiftgasse, Kirchengasse and Kellermanngasse.

Marconi Plaza, Philadelphia

An architectural design for a grand public square like the squares of center City Philadelphia (inspired by the Benjamin Franklin Parkway) was planned at the parkway's end point of Penrose Avenue, which was viewed by city planners to be the significant southern gateway to the City.

Périgueux

Simone Mareuil (a lead actor from the surrealist film Un Chien Andalou) committed self-immolation on 24 October 1954 by dousing herself in gasoline and burning herself to death in a public square in Périgueux.

Philadelphion

The Philadelphion was a public square located in Constantinople (today's Istanbul).

Piazza

When the Earl of Bedford developed Covent Garden - the first private-venture public square built in London - his architect Inigo Jones surrounded it with arcades, in the Italian fashion.

Place Pigalle

The Place Pigalle is a public square located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, between the Boulevard de Clichy and the Boulevard de Rochechouart, near Sacré-Cœur, at the foot of the Montmartre hill.

Place Viger

Much of the Viger Gardens was destroyed in the 1970s to allow for the construction of the Autoroute Ville-Marie highway, and the remainder of the gardens was transformed into a little-travelled public square (named "Viger Square"), with much-criticized concrete landscaping by artist Charles Daudelin.

Tom L. Johnson

Today, a statue of Johnson stands in Cleveland's Public Square depicting him holding Henry George's book, "Progress and Poverty."

Tyska

Tyska Brunnsplan, small, triangular public square in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden