{"id":901,"date":"2006-06-22T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=901"},"modified":"2006-06-27T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T17:41:06","slug":"901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/06\/22\/901\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks, Plazas and Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/graphics\/upo-pages\/parks_plazas_squares_homepa_xlarge\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/\">Project for Public Spaces<\/a>&#8216; website has a new series of articles on public <a title=\"Parks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/parks_plazas_squares\/\">Parks, Plazas &#038; Squares<\/a>  including their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/parks_plazas_squares\/info\/parks_plazas_squares_approach\">approach<\/a> to  design and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/parks_plazas_squares\/info\/parks_plazas_squares_articles\/squares_principles\">Ten Principles for Creating Successful Squares<\/a>.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/parks_plazas_squares\/info\/parks_plazas_squares_articles\/september2004_feature\">Six Parks We Can All Learn From<\/a>  writes about some real examples and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/parks_plazas_squares\/info\/parks_plazas_squares_articles\/motor_city\">Magic in the Motor City<\/a>  talks about  how Campus Martius, a new public square, brought life back to downtown Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project for Public Spaces&#8216; website has a new series of articles on public Parks, Plazas &#038; Squares including their approach to design and Ten Principles for Creating Successful Squares. 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