- published: 15 Feb 2012
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A plaza /ˈplɑːzə/ is an open urban public space, such as a city square.
Throughout Spanish America and the Spanish East Indies, 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 equaled by the market-place.
Most colonial cities in Spanish America and the Philippines 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 bullring.
In modern usage, a plaza can be any gathering place on a street or between buildings, a street intersection with a statue, etc. Today's metropolitan landscapes often incorporate the "plaza" as a design element, or as an outcome of zoning regulations, building budgetary constraints, and the like. Sociologist William H. Whyte conducted an extensive study of plazas in New York City: his study humanized the way modern urban plazas are conceptualized, and helped usher in significant design changes in the making of plazas.
Close your eyes and come with me to a new place
Where we are unstoppable
Inhale and let the smoke fill your lungs and breathe the impossible
And as we follow these foot prints a new world will begin
Can you feel it my brothers - it's time to repent
Now can I get an amen! Why don't you come and ride with me
I can feel your pain, if you let me I'll save your soul
I'll take you away if you're with me
I'll make you whole amen
Now can I get an amen
And as we slowly seperate from our worldly desires
We think the unthinkable
And we will swim together through the fire for we are unsinkable
And if you follow this path a new life with begin
Can you hear it my children it's time to confess
Now, can I get an amen!
Confess, confess, digest adn you will be saved by this