Mike D

For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.

American Musician

Liya Kebede

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

Ethiopian Model

George Vecsey

Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.

American Author

Darin Strauss

In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.

American Writer

Lawrence Halprin

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.

American Architect

Rob Dyrdek

DC and Monster have always supported my vision for street skateboarding, from building skate plazas throughout the world to now creating the first-ever professional skateboarding league.

Angolan Entertainer

Renzo Piano

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Italian Architect

Raza Murad

I own a flat in Ansal plaza in Shyamla Hills area and am also a member of Lakeview Enclave Welfare Society but I didn't know that there was a separate society of E-block.

Indian Actor

Ma Yansong

Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic because many things happened there. The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable.

Chinese Architect

In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.

A plaza is often a focal point for festivals, markets, and community events.

Gathering Spot

Many plazas are historical and may have monuments or be surrounded by important buildings.

Historical Significance

Plazas are commonly located at the heart of a city or town, sometimes near a landmark.

Central Location

A plaza can contain a diverse range of shops, from small boutiques to large supermarkets.

Variety of Stores

Plazas serve as convenient one-stop locations for shopping, dining, and services.

Convenience Hub

People often use shopping plazas as informal meeting points with friends or family.

Casual Meetups

 If you're a mayor, you can do something about that. His administration narrowed key municipal thoroughfares from five lanes to three, outlawed parking on those streets, expanded pedestrian walkways and bike lanes, created public plazas, created one of the most efficient bus mass-transit systems in the entire world.

Majora Carter: Greening...

 she's probably gonna really take off nicely because now she's going to be in fertile soil everything beginning soil it's got aeration got fertilization you know the whole plaza in essence is a rooftop garden it's a it's a six foot deep planter box she's gonna grow evenly just a little bulb on one side but soon

9/11 'Survivor Tree'...

 Given the vulnerability that public spaces pose from opposition, governments try to control them. The architectural brief we got discouraged large open spaces, presumably out of concern for public assemblies and social unrest. Our response was to make open meadows and plazas

A stealthy reimagining...

 best oscar we could have possibly imagined and now a news story is being written in our increasingly borderless world as protesters are translating and showing our film themselves in squares in kiev caracas and moscow and other squares middens plazas and piazzas

Democracy is not a...

 which sits actually right on top of the river, which you can see here in dotted lines. This plaza used to be a chaotic transportation hub that actually compromised the urban integrity of the medina, that has the largest pedestrian network in the world.

Aziza Chaouni: How I...

 expanded pedestrian walkways and bike lanes created public plazas created one of the most efficient bus mass transit systems in the entire world for his brilliant efforts he was nearly impeached but as people began to see

Greening the ghetto -...

 we've done it with paint and temporary materials. And the proof is not in a computer model. It is in the real-world performance of the street. You can have fun with paint. All told, we've created over 50 pedestrian plazas

Janette Sadik-Khan: New...

 gives the plaza a theatrical quality. It becomes a stage where the generations can meet. You have teenagers sprawling on the pavers, seniors monopolizing the benches, and real life starts to look like an opera set.

Why glass towers are bad...

 in spaces of cities around the world. I'm going to share two directions that are new in my work. Historic Philadelphia City its plaza, I felt, needed a material for sculpture that was lighter than netting.

Janet Echelman: Taking...

 penetrated the north tower they began by modeling the world trade center complex seven buildings on a 16-acre plaza in lower manhattan this would be a living model of the north tower from the inside out