argument:The following appeared as a letter to the editor from the owner of a skate shop in Central Plaza. "Two years ago the city voted to prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. They claimed thatskateboard users were responsible for the litter and vand

The letter above tries to convince the reader that allowing skateboarding in the Central Plaza is in the right step to take, since it is in favor of “restoring the Plaza to its former glory”. This is while there seems to be a personal interest in this matter, since the writer owns a “skate shop” in the mentioned Plaza, and not any shop. So, if the city was going to vote again and decide wether or not to lift the prohibition of skateboarding in Central Plaza, there are several qustions to be answered to come into a wise judgment.

Who is responsible for the current problems in Centra...

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Sentence: So, if the city was going to vote again and decide wether or not to lift the prohibition of skateboarding in Central Plaza, there are several qustions to be answered to come into a wise judgment.
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Sentence: People often seem to act differently in urban scapes like Plazas than they do in parks, so the consiquenses of having skateboard users in the Monroe Park and the Central Plaza could be very different.
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