About plaza names
Civic optimism runs through results like "Independence Square", "Jubilee Plaza", and "Grand Fountain Plaza", names built for parades and protest alike. The Square entries feel older and more political, while Plaza forms suit commercial districts and transit hubs. Anchor your city map with one and let market days, festivals, and riots all happen in the same named space.
How plaza names are built
One two-slot template pairs a 234-entry word bank with a 2-entry plaza-word bank. The plaza word is Plaza or Square, so the engine builds Town Hall Plaza, Prism Plaza, Fortune Square and Union Square.
Town Hall Plaza
Town Hall + Plaza
multi-word lead slot plus plaza-word slot
Fortune Square
Fortune + Square
lead-word slot plus plaza-word slot
Union Square
Union + Square
lead-word slot plus plaza-word slot
Naming notes
The plaza-word bank holds just 2 entries, so every result ends in Plaza or Square, while the 234-entry word bank carries all the variety. Some lead-word entries are stored as multi-word strings (Town Hall). The two slots are sampled independently.
Questions about plaza names
- What are the two trailing words?
- The plaza-word bank holds exactly 2 entries, Plaza and Square, so every result ends in one of them.
- Where does the variety come from?
- The lead word bank holds 234 entries against the 2-entry plaza-word bank, so the lead carries nearly all the variation.
- Can these sit on the same map as the street names?
- Yes. The plaza, street and district generators draw on a shared civic word vocabulary, so a Fortune Square can sit alongside a generated street and district.