This deeply free and public space plays a vital role in our world, equally important in our digital age as in Greco-Roman times, when they were marketplaces for goods and ideas. As common ground, squares are equitable and democratic; they have played a fundamental role in the development of free speech.
Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
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