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Urban Squares Initiative by A. Janicijevic is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.
trg, torg, torget, targ, ter, tere, toerana, tori, ploshcad, ploshcha, market, markt, platz, place, plasenn, plats, placo, placa, pijaca, prato, plliaca, praca, plaza, plazza, piazza, plazuella, plein, piata, piasa, pliacetta, piasa, pieza, piaza, plass, plac, prazza, piata, plateia, chiazza, ciassa, chjazza, pjazza, square, cudrado, el cuadro, quadrat, squero, parque, park, largo, court, campo, campidoglio, campiello, namasty, namestie, mesto, nytorv, moedani, meydani, maidan, gradina, agora, forum, rynek, shesh, carro, valjak, vliet, viereckig, winkel, aukio, okarusu, oshkuzha, kancha, carseh, jagadas, sillju, drhal, sgwar, souk, bebia yeshia, adgbum, lan, misrah, djemaa, kikar, caernog, dataran [89] [great help in translations: logosdictionary.org][please send us words in your language used for city squares, lets extend this collection!]
[in red = new this month]
objective of this initiative [with 162 squares] is to explore a visual and artistic aspects of public urban squares [plazas] and to be a research about language of the squares as a nucleus and a hearth of any neighbourhood. we are interpreting/translateing their messages about the urban morphology and fundamental values in the overall social integration and sustainability of the urban life.
this collection inspired us to start performing specific subjective analysis of urban neighbourhoods and producing their "psychogeograhical portraits" as a mental reaction to the visited space.
urbansqares project is in a very beginning and "walking on a very narrow path" between art and science is a calculated risk. intention is to have artistic freedom in interpreting the facts, and maybe to provoke some action from interested and influential people. as an integral, and very important part of this project, classification system is developed, consisting of evaluation method and types of city squares. other even more important parts of this initiative/project are our activities related to urban issues and psychogeography, urbansquares art projects and documentation.
any comments are welcome, so do not hesitate to give us your opinion about any aspect of this site. thanks in advance.
people from good omen designing are photographing all of the squares on their numerous trips! if you want to contribute a square to our collection send us a 480x240px quicktime.mov file, up to 500 kb. if the photos meet our criteria [aesthetic and technical] they will be included and you will be mentioned as an author***.
aleksandar janicijevic, toronto, canada, january 2008
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