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Recent Examples of alamedaBut what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.—Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
While show caves attract more than 70 million visitors annually worldwide, more and more travelers are pushing past the paved walkways and illuminated paths.
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Heide Brandes,
AFAR Media,
15 Oct. 2025
The solar panel reportedly became disconnected from a carport located near a walkway where the woman was standing when she was hit.
After staging myriad runway shows under its colonnade and championing its work, Erdem Moralioglu has become a member of the board of trustees of his favorite cultural institution, the British Museum.
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Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025
Black and white presidential portraits now hang along the colonnade near the Oval Office in gold frames.
In what might be a revenge move a la Taylor Swift, Walmart buying the mall can clear the pathway into the market far more easily than getting approvals and building a site from scratch.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
Young people now spend much of their life in a subterranean world of schools, recreation centers, shelters, even malls.
The development also promises reconstruction of a 6,000-square-foot public viewing deck and a new 12-foot-wide pedestrian promenade, both overlooking Harbor Island’s West Basin.
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Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Oct. 2025
Those include an aquarium complex, a baywalk promenade and a restaurant complex under a Fishermen’s Village theme.
At its center is a large, multi-purpose, open air central plaza that transforms from a relaxed seating area to an amphitheater or community space.
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Kimberly Lyn,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Oct. 2025
Thousands of fans packed into the Callao plaza in the city center for the pop-up event, which include a 90-minute TikTok stream chronicling the singer’s prep and arrival.
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