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“The plaza is truly a public space.”
— Fernando N. Zialcita, Sacral Spaces Between Skyscrapers

The needs, wants, and desires of everybody else are marginalized; these desires normally include the desire to be unharmed by noise and environmental pollution, being able to safely walk the streets, or more generally, simply having a say in the transformation of their environment."

"As cultural artifacts, [cities] can be understood as 'man's most consistent and on the whole, his most successful attempt to remake the world he lives in more after his heart's desire.' Cities, thus, are expressions of human desires. The question to ask, however, is how human desires are expressed, filtered, and selected to give shape to the city...