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Perspective view of Sackville Street and Gardiner's Mall in Dublin, Ireland in the 1750s, by Oliver Grace.
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p>The promenade became firmly established in Europe as a public space type in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, appearing on the North American continent in the late eighteenth century. By the mid-nineteenth century a number of American cities offered designated outdoor settings for citizens to engage the social practice of “seeing and bein...
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