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, 1943 ]] Plaza (IPA or ) is a , the '' Cabildo '' or administrative center, which might be incorporated in a wing of a governor's Palace , and the ''audiencia'' or law court. The plaza might be large enough to serve as a military parade ground. At times of crisis or Fiesta , it was the space where a large crowd might gather. Like the Italian Piazza , the plaza remains a center of community life that is only equalled by the market-place. Most colonial cities in Spanish America were planned around a square '' Plaza De Armas '', where troops could be mustered, as the name implies, surrounded by the governor's palace and the main church. A ''plaza de toros'' is a Bullring . The Italian Cognate is '' Piazza '', the French cognate '' Place ''. Examples SHOPPING CENTER The first purpose-built shopping center in the United States, opened in Kansas City, Missouri in 1922 , knowingly took the name of " Country Club Plaza " and adopted Spanish architectural details. More recently ''plaza'' has been used to describe a Shopping Complex , similar to a Shopping Mall , borrowing its connotations of a center of cultural life. The name is currently even applied to a single building with some semi-public street-level areas, often with a hotel or office tower above, while ''mall'' more often refers to multiple buildings or a street. Examples: Pantip Plaza , Clinton Plaza , Plaza Las Américas , Central Plaza, Hong Kong , Schiphol Plaza, The Plaza . Fictional example: Nakatomi Plaza (in real life, Fox Plaza ). SEE ALSO |
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