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13. Urban settings(cities) require public spaces to maintain equanimity.

12. Cities are highly condensed lands in many terms, but specifically population.
11. Such concentration will necessitate a dispersion of clustering.
10. Public spaces serve as vital components that assuage the amalgamation both at the individual's level and the city level by means of comfort, aesthetics, and composition.

9. A city may be a culmination of businesses and industries, but serves as a home to many as well; these residents also desire a space to unwind and gather.
8. Many cities that have once flourished are degenerating now, or have already done so. This is due to a progressive diffusion of residents moving out to the suburbs. Could this have any direct relation to the city's public space?
7. Central Park is a paragon in regards to public space in an urban setting.
6. A reason Manhattan continues to grow, amongst various reasons, is the city's increased interest in reforming/shifting the infrastructure - formerly a traffic oriented commercial city, into a more pedestrian friendly setting.
5. Public spaces, plazas, and parks are the liberation of human scale in an overwhelming setting; it provides a contrast from skyscrapers and allows one to readjust the scale to that of the human level.
4. Public spaces such as parks and plazas allow for a deviation from the patterned city by interjecting breaks in the skylines and in streetscapes; such anomaly can also be appreciated in an urban design point of view.
3. Public spaces such as parks and plazas provide a contrasting texture to that of the city by visual, tactile, auditory, and olfactory elements.
2. I don't know what to write anymore,
1. and I want to go to sleep.