Talk:List of city squares by size

message: Several of the squares listed could just as well be considered a park as a square. What is the defining line?
:Agree. And it's not just trees, grassed areas too. I feel very uncomfortable referring to the whole areas of several of the listed places as "city squares". Anyone else want to chime in? Turkeyphant 21:40, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As a Chicagoan, I totally disagree with the characterization of Millennium Park as a "city square." It lacks any sense of enclosure by surrounding buildings, is bounded on three sides by thoroughfares, and is more grassed than paved. If it's a city square, then so is New York's Central Park, which is considerably bigger. (I also question the inclusion of New York's Washington Square Park, though that one is slightly more defensible.) Chicago simply is not a city of squares the way, say, Philadelphia is; the only place in the city I know of which I'd unequivocally characterize as a "city square" is Giddings Plaza in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. --Geenius at Wrok (talk) 18:34, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I would personally consider many of these squares as parks. This is a purely personal observation that many of these squares are grassed, unenclosed, recreational spaces (parks...), rather than a a square in the traditional sense; paved, surrounded by the city on all sides, places for communal gathering or commerce. I would fully support a full review of this list on the grounds of definition, let alone contested sizes. I think there may be the temptation for those of civic pride (not a bad thing) to exaggerate their own town or city's open spaces in either definition or size, and listing these parks and squares by location rather than size may reduce the impact of one-upmanship that this list seems to have bred. 78.144.168.228 (talk) 19:23, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many trees before a square is a park? 

message: I've found a source which claims that there are four squares larger than the square in Samara, Russia. It only says where they are, not what they are called. It lists:
* Cairo
* Havana
* Beijing
* Pyongyang
Of these we only have the Beijing square in the list currently. Some research is necessary! --Romanski 16:45, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other top squares not listed? 

message: Parade Square allegedly 700m 300m with some provisional buildings.Xx236 (talk) 10:24, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you give the source? --Roman Yankovsky (talk) 17:14, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warsaw 

message: The square called 'Praca dos girassois' can be found in the city called Palmas. Palmas is the capital of the state Tocantins, in Brazil.
You can find the square on Google Earth, by typing the square name.
The size of the square is approximatedly 700m x 800m. There are government buildings on the square, and central you find the 'Palacio Araguaia'.
Depending on the definition of a square, this would be the worlds largest square.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.2.93.6 (talk) 20:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Praca dos girassois, Palmas, Brazil 

message: The list does include questionable archaeological artefacts along the lines of Cahokia but excludes such major European squares as the Field of Mars. --Ghirla-трёп- 02:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What a mess 

message: I may be missing something, but I really think there is something messed up with the sorting.
Goes like this: the page loads and everything is sorted correctly, Tienanmen Square at the top with 440,000 m², Raekoja plats at the bottom with 5,550 m². Then the poor user (that would be me) clicks this thingie http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif next to "Area". He would think that this simply reverses the order from descending to ascending. But no. It goes all bizarre. Rynek Wielki goes to the top with 10,000 m² and at the bottom we can see Plaza de Balcarce measuring 90,000 m². Like it doesn't treat surface areas as numbers but rather ordinal numerals.
I have read "Help:Sorting", understood pretty much nothing. I don't have a clue if it's like this for a purpose or is it a bug of some sort. I also have no idea how to fix it, so i thought i'll just write about it here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.230.202.194 (talk) 21:48, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I also disagree about listing by size. I think there may be the temptation for those of civic pride (not a bad thing) to exaggerate their own town or city's open spaces in either definition or size, and listing these parks and squares by location rather than size may reduce the impact of one-upmanship that this list seems to have bred. 78.144.168.228 (talk) 19:23, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  sorting by area seems to be wrong 

message: According to a book I have, this square is the largest in the world, covering an area of about 850000 square m (approximately 1000m x 850m). However, there are quite a lot of trees on this square as seen on Google Earth/Maps so it could be a park just as well. The local name for the square is Medan (or Lapangan) Merdeka, both meaning Freedom Plain/Field.HyperGaruda (talk) 07:22, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed if the spatial configuration of the space between Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Utara, Timur and Selatan is considered, than it is rather a park subdivided by many streets. If only the free open space around Monas is considered, than it is much smaller. --Elekhh (talk) 05:04, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merdeka Square, Jakarta, Indonesia 

message: this is a very big square in tel aviv.
there is more city's with big squares that not showing on the list like : 
1 - New delhi 
2 - Canberra 
3 - Baghdad
4 - Damascus
5 - Amman
6 - Addis Ababa
7 - Samarkand
8 - Tashkent
9 - Ashgabat
i think there is more city's need to added to the list. פארוק (talk) 21:18, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Kikar hamedina]] (the state square) , tel aviv , israel 

message: I propose that the National Mall in Washington DC is actually the biggest square in the world at 309 acres (1 250 000 m2), it is just as much of a square as Merdeka Square regardless of what its name is. 
It seems to me there is a lot of confusion about what constitutes a square, Merdeka in Jakarta serves as a good example, whilst at its very centre could be considered a square the vastly expanded area that is included to make up the 1000000 m2 would almost certainly be called a park - it has dense trees. By my rough estimates the square proper is only 90000 m2. I think a definition needs to be reached and applied; simply because something is called 'X square' doesn't mean it is a square.
--Cimex (talk) 13:23, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Mall, Washington DC 

message: Does it belong on this list then? -- megA (talk) 17:24, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parc de la Verriere is a park, not a square! 

message: This list is not coherent, there are many places that seem more parks than squares and others are not included. For example National Mall, which is 247 ha (without counting the building area), Parque 3 de febrero in Buenos Aires (wich is mostly constituted by plazas and is 276-400 depending on measurements, Central Park which is 338 ha or General San Martin Park which is roughly 400 ha.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reinsalkas (talk • contribs) 12:07, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parks, squares, combined parks and saquers?? 

message: I am engaged in research on the sizes of city squares in a set of ancient cities. I am looking for comparative data from contemporary cities. I cannot evaluate the rigor or accuracy of the plaza measurements in this list. My general plan is to do some exploratory quantitative analyses, and if the results look promising I will probably want to re-measure all of these plazas to be consistent and rigorous. But any information about who did these measurements, or how to judge their accuracy, would be appreciated.
Michael E. Smith (talk) 21:09, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  How rigorous and accurate are the measurements? 

message: .
Sobornaya sq. (:ru:Соборная_площадь_(Пушкин) ) has  3,4 ha  (34.000 m2) . 
:ru:Софийская_площадь_(Пушкин) Sofiyskaya sq. has near 40 000 m 2.
Other from there is the  Privokzalnaya sq. :ru:Привокзальная_площадь_(Пушкин)   which has square near 15000 m2 in shape of semi-circle with main diameter near 200 m.
Golodg (talk) 17:49, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: 2 squares from [[Pushkin,_Saint_Petersburg|Tzarskoe Selo  (Pushkin), Russia]] 

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