The Biography of 100,000 Square Feet
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Market Street Association vs U.N. Plaza
15 people with an interest, sometimes competing interests, were appointed by the supervisors to come up with a plan that would fix up the plaza without displacing anyone. The chair was linvolente of the market street association. Roma recommended they remove the fountain, put a street through the thieves market. In effect, change united nations from a formal place, a place for marches, a public square, and turned instead to exactly what halprin didn't want.
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