The Treatment of City Squares 
ROME 
its illustration of 
how perfectly— 
with what results 
in nobility of 
aspect, in har¬ 
mony to sur¬ 
roundings, and 
in convenience 
to the neighbor¬ 
hood—an open 
space may be 
treated, if only 
the problem be 
given sufficient 
thought. Poten¬ 
tially, its spaces 
are the city’s 
jewels. 
Let us take 
one more 
familiar example 
of a square in 
the city’s heart. 
Union Square, 
New York, has 
a likeness to 
THE PIAZZA AND PORTA DEL POPOLO 
walls adorned 
with sculpture. 
The whole space 
is something 
larger, perhaps, 
than is needed 
to-day ; but the 
fast growth of 
that section of 
the city across 
the Tiber, of 
whose traffic this 
Piazza is the 
natural distribu- 
t i n g point, 
makes its size 
appear a wise 
provision for the 
future. dhe 
lesson of the 
square is not so 
much in its hint 
for other com¬ 
munities— the 
situation being 
peculiar—as in 
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THE PIAZZA DEL POPOLO FROM THE PINCIAN HILL 
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