" Feeling in the middle of things, at the place to and from which streets flow, where people come not to escape the city but to be inside it: This us usually what defines a successful square. It is a space around which the rest of a neighborhood or town or city tends to be organized [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"]. "

― Catie Marron , City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World