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How New York’s Union Square helped shape free speech in the US

  • Written by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Professor of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington
Union Square: contentious political rallies helped progressive social reformers argue for the protection of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington DC, USA , CC BY-ND

Public space is an essential component of democratic cities. Modelled on the agora of ancient Greece, it is a...

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