Feature Story:
The World's Best Public Spaces
The Jardin Juarez and Market Hall in Juchitan, Mexico joins the ranks of Great Public Spaces.
Ten lively locations--from a dazzling museum in St. Louis to an exciting plaza in Brazil--are now being inducted to PPS's authoritative Great Public Spaces website.
This year's inductees to Great Public Spaces include a street market in a working class neighborhood of Amsterdam, an immigrant shopping street in Chicago and public squares in provincial cities of Brazil and Mexico, as well as the highly expensive and much hyped renovation to New York's Museum of Modern Art--proving once again that the best public places come in all shapes, sizes, and styles.
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