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Plaza


Plaza is a Spanish word related to "field" which describes an open urban public space, such as a city square. All through Spanish America, the ''plaza mayor'' of each center of administration held three closely related institutions: the cathedral, the ''cabildo'' or administrative center, which might be incorporated in a wing of a governor's palace, and the ''audiencia'' or law court. The plaza might be large enough to serve as a military parade ground. At times of crisis or fiesta, it was the space where a large crowd might gather. Like the Italian piazza, the plaza remains a center of community life that is only equalled by the market-place. Most colonial cities in Spanish America were planned around a square ''plaza de armas'', where troops could be mustered, as the name implies, surrounded by the governor's palace and the main church. A ''plaza de toros'' is a bullfighting arena. The Italian cognate is ''Piazza'', the French cognate ''Place''.
Example
  • Plaza de Mayo

    Shopping center

    The first purpose-built shopping center in the United States, opened in Kansas City, Missouri in 1922, knowingly took the name of "Country Club Plaza" and adopted Spanish architectural details. More recently ''plaza'' has been used to describe a shopping complex, similar to a shopping mall, borrowing its connotations of a center of cultural life. The name is currently even applied to a single building with some semi-public street-level areas, often with a hotel or office tower above, while ''mall'' more often refers to multiple buildings or a street. Examples: Pantip Plaza, Clinton Plaza, Central Plaza, Hong Kong, Schiphol Plaza. Fictional example: Nakatomi Plaza Category:Urban studies and planning pt:Praça

    Harbour


    The term harbour may refer to:
  • A harbor (or harbour) or haven, a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored.
  • Harbour compiler, a compiler of Clipper programming language

    Nakatomi Plaza


    Nakatomi Plaza is a fictional office building that is the setting of the first ''Die Hard'' movie. The building used in filming was actually Fox Plaza, which is 20th Century Fox's headquarters in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles.

  • Skyscrapers in film

    External link

  • http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/US/CA/LosAngelesFoxPlaza.html Category:Fictional buildings

    Clinton Plaza


    Clinton Plaza was a red light district in Bangkok, Thailand, located on Sukhumvit Road between Soi 13 and Soi 15. The plaza began as a collection of beer bars in 1998; it was named after the former U.S. president Bill Clinton the following year, and go-go bars were added in 2000. In 2001 the interior minister of Thailand, Purachai Piumsombun, started a campaign to enforce social order. This and contractual disputes related to redevelopment plans led to the closure of the area's bars by May 2003. Category:Red-light districts Category:Bangkok

    Pantip Plaza


    Pantip Plaza is an indoor Information technology mall located on Phetburi Road in Bangkok, Thailand. Although there is an occasional crackdown, software and DVD piracy are the major reasons behind this mall's success and notoriety. Nowadays, Pantip Plaza is under the control of the Police Department in order of software business's companies.

    Software

    Legitimate licensed software remains unpopular for the majority of Pantip shoppers due to high price and the availability of pirate versions of the same software. Popular pirated software, DVDs and games range from $2.50 - $8. A few publishers such as Blizzard Entertainment, offer licensed "for sale in Thailand only" software with localized Thai packaging and manuals at prices in the $8-$20 range. As of December 2004, purchasing pirated software remains an easy and open practice.

    Hardware

    Pantip contains three large retail shops and several hundred small shops specializing in parts, modifications, hardware, networking, second hand, laptops, Macintosh and peripherals. Of note is a wide selection of second hand business machines from IBM, Gateway, and Dell. Most of these machines come via cargo ship from Western countries. nl:Pantip Plaza th:พันธุ์ทิพย์พลาซ่า

    Dealey Plaza


    Dealey Plaza, (pronounced ''deal-ee'') in Dallas, Texas, United States, is famous as the location of the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963.

    History

    Dealey Plaza is a park completed in 1939 on the west edge of downtown Dallas where three streets converge (Main Street, Elm Street, and Commerce Street) to pass under a railroad bridge. The plaza is named for George Bannerman Dealey 1859–1946), publisher of the ''Dallas Morning News'' and the man who had campaigned for the area's revitalization. Many believe the monuments outlining the plaza are there to honor President John F. Kennedy, but they actually honor previous prominent Dallas residents, and predate President Kennedy's visit by many years. The actual Dallas monument to Kennedy, in the form of a cenotaph, is located several blocks away.

    Kennedy assassination

    Dealey Plaza is bounded on the south, east, and north sides by 100'+ tall buildings. One of those buildings is the Texas School Book Depository building, from where the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, fired a rifle that killed the president. There is also a grassy knoll, from where the House Select Committee on Assassinations controversially concluded that a second gunman also fired at (but missed) President Kennedy. At the plaza's west perimeter is a triple overpass railroad bridge, under which the motorcade raced after the shots were fired. Today the plaza is typically filled with tourists visiting the assassination site and the Sixth Floor Museum that now occupies the top two floors of the seven storey School Book Depository. Since 1989, some 4-million-plus people have visited Dealey Plaza. One of the better-scaled maps of Dealey Plaza showing witnesses' locations and observations, suspected assassins' locations, evidentiary artifacts, and other valuable information can be found http://members.aol.com/droberdeau/JFK/DP.jpg here. thumbnail|200px|The path used by


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