ABSTRACT
It is one thing to design an urban space, leave such a space between buildings, or even make such a space by demolishing buildings as Mies van der Rohe proposed to do to form the Mansion House Square in London (1965). Given such, a space, clearly, one can do as Mies intended: that is pave most of it whilst leaving traffic routes, not just around the perimeter but in this case also cutting across the urban square.
