Main Street Parks and Plazas 

The Idea of “Urban Open Space” Systems. 

 MAIN STREET “THIRD PLACES” WHERE PEOPLE MEET CASUALLY, IN A PLEASANT SETTING. 

Downtown parks and plazas are ideal “third places”. Character downtowns have extensive areas and lands devoted to parks and open spaces. When systematically organized, the collection of parks, plazas, school grounds, stormwater ponds, protected wetlands, lakes, streams, private lawns and gardens becomes a holistic system of lands and waters that make ideal meeting places for people of all ages.