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public square refers to a open, outdoor area in the center of a town or city where people gather and engage in various activities. It is a shared space where individuals can socialize, hold events, or express their opinions.
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Italian scientists protest announced budget cuts through scientific lectures
in public squares.
The research team found 13 identical lecture halls lining a
large public square in the ancient city's eastern section.
According to Felipe Mandarino of Rio's Pereira Passos Institute, the city intends to plant more than 120,000 new saplings, expand the city's protected green spaces by 4,000 hectares, and revamp hundreds
of public squares to make them less prone to heating by 2020.
History unfolds globally as recent protests in Venezuela, Ukraine, and Thailand are broadcast live
from public squares.
In other words, at least a decade before the Supreme Court got into the game, the path to a
naked public square dominated by the Imperial Autonomous Self was being blazed by the institutions that had been the transmitters of the religiously informed moral truths at the root of our democracy for generations.
Herzog & de Meuron used four basic principles to redesign of the building: to restore the brick outer layer using traditional techniques, to get rid of the stone base around the power plant, to open up a new
public square with an entrance on Paseo del Prado and to add volume.
«It is time we stopped viewing the pastors in jacket and tie who go and preach the Bible in
public squares as depoliticized imbeciles» (Veja, 26/10/94).
«This shouldn't happen anymore»: White man beaten to a pulp in
public square for dating African - American woman in Georgia.
Any witnessing together
on public square issues must be grounded in a common faith in the Holy Trinity, in Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word made flesh, and in the Bible, the written word of God which norms Christian life, thought and action.
Andrés Martinez is editorial director of
Zocalo Public Square, for which he writes the Trade Winds column.
The prospect of overt and violent hatred and bigotry once again entering the
American public square of ideas is abhorrent, and again, a very real threat.
Or is he saying that we should never desire such things because the ideal is a merely
civil public square, with the public confession, profession, and worship of the True Religion relegated to the private sphere for both religion and society's own good?
The last time we heard from conceptual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, about a month ago, he was cooking up Thai food in Basel, Switzerland, on the Messeplatz, the large
public square outside the annual fair Art Basel, as part of a collaborative... Read More
«The project mimics the tradition of a fountain as a monument found in
public squares around the world, but its magic lies in the emulation of light where water should be,» said artist Sue Webster.
Second, evangelical Protestants will benefit immensely from listening to Roman Catholic thinkers engaging with the pressing
public square issues of abortion, sexuality, and religious freedom.
Jews sometimes complain about nativity scenes in large,
public squares such as the steps of city hall, etc..
I also joined two of the university's professors — the climate scientist Alex Hall and the environmental historian Jon Christensen — for an onstage
Zócalo Public Square discussion of this question: «Should we just adapt to climate change?»
Richard Meier's building Inaugurated in 1995, the building of the museum, designed by well - known American architect Richard Meyer, faces a very popular newly
built public square, the Plaça dels Àngels, frequented by creative people, street artists, and skaters.
Jesus is not allowed in
most public squares, specially not at Christmas time, or mention of him at high school football games, or graduation ceremonies.
In the years since 9/11, the
French public square has been dominated by the jihadists and the xenophobes; and in that volatile social environment, something very bad was going to happen.
Abel Ferrara, Italy / USA 2017, 69m North American Premiere Abel Ferrara's new documentary is a vivid mosaic / portrait of Rome's
biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio, built in the 19th century around the ruins of the 3rd century Trofei di Mario.
Public Square Partnerships further reports that in its first year of operation, the company had contracts to help five schools in Bridgeport and New Haven, three of which were public schools and two were charter schools.
Europe in the late fall and early winter can be a great time to visit when crowds are limited and Christmas markets
fill public squares.
Now Kaid Benfield writes in
CNU Public Square about a new study that took a more sophisticated and throrough look at the subject, that examined the behaviour of 6822 adults in 14 cities from 10 countries, tracking them with electronic exercise monitors and geographic information systems.
While this exhibition is not about partisan politics, it is an attempt to recreate a few different
active public squares within a gallery space in Los Angeles, a city where the concept of public space is virtually non-existent.
With its narrow cobblestone streets, well - preserved historic buildings,
manicured public squares and trendy eateries, the capital city of Santiago de Querétaro could easily be mistaken for somewhere in southern Spain.
Borrowing a Cleveland Metroparks executive to manage a newly
re-energized Public Square was a necessary first step to ensure the 10 - acre heart of the city comes to life after its June 1 reopening.
Distance apart, cyberspace is a humanizing device for creating a kind of ersatz office / pub / common room /
public square area for those deprived, rather cruelly, of one or more versions of the real thing.
First there is a tendency, owing perhaps to its MacIntyrean inspiration, to conceive of this «option» primarily in practical or political terms, that is, as a kind of «communitarian» stance within an increasingly
hostile public square.
As America lurches toward a fully same - sex -
affirming public square, it is increasingly urged along by that most curious of cheerleaders: the «affirming pastor.»
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post-Enlightenment public square sounds positively tribal: it would mean Muslims arguing for Shari'a law and Christians arguing from the Bible about sexual ethics.