Sentence examples for empty plazas from inspiring English sources
The vast empty plazas seemed to sum up the social alienation of modern society; surrounded by slums, the monumental government buildings of its center exemplified Brazil's deeply rooted social inequalities.
It would revise the residential zoning code to encourage buildings on the scale of existing neighborhoods, and discourage blasting down existing street blocks for empty plazas and big towers like the one Donald Trump is constructing near the United Nations.
WHEN Leonard de Paur became Lincoln Center's director of community relations in 1970, two things concerned him: the lack of community participation in the center's activities and the vast, empty plazas.
"The Wiz" revealed another weakness, Mr. Sanders said: the empty plaza.
MOSCOW — On an empty plaza in a Moscow park, a man unfurled a yoga mat and sat down.
They often depict naked young women sunbathing on a vast empty plaza as his buildings recede in the background.
By evening, the pro-government crowd had disappeared for the night, leaving the police guarding a virtually empty plaza.
Madrid is a sprawling, largely modern city, but one sees little beyond the Prado or a nearly empty Plaza Mayor.
At its center, perched on a thick marble cylinder, is a comically undersized bronze of William Penn, the city's founder, who presides over an almost invariably empty plaza.
Inspired by the 2011 Arab Spring, Coco Fusco chose the empty Plaza de la Revolución in Havana as the site for her meditation on public space, revolutionary promise, and memory.
"It's still kind of nice to be up here," she said, pausing to appreciate the view from outside the empty plaza, which was blocked off by a temporary gate and police tape.
