30/10/2012 11:37 | By Nick Bruno, contributor, MSN Travel
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Built: Leicester Square Redesign, London, United Kingdom



Leicester Square Redesign, London, United Kingdom (© Burns + Nice)
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250,000 visitors a day, 50-plus film premieres each year and 24-hr recreational boozing turned many a visitor away from  “Lie-Sester Square’s” red carpet and park benches. Sinuous granite seating and new paving and lighting now invite you to linger rather than flee from the public space around the listed Shakespeare fountain.
 

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30/10/2012 19:27
31/10/2012 21:13
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Well Atlantic City does not look like that anymore, neither does New York.
30/10/2012 22:17
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Defo not London. There would be fag buts, fast food wrappers, and pigeon **** everywhere.
01/11/2012 12:12
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