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This tour offers some backstories of open spaces--vacant lots, parks, parking lots, crumbling foundations, and fields--throughout Providence; we hope it also sparks your curiosity about the vacant places you pass every day.</p>","postscript_text":"","tour_img":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/d62154404761de44056351d83ea69d89.jpg","items":[{"id":340,"title":"Silver Lake Basin","latitude":41.810234199999996462793205864727497100830078125,"longitude":-71.4603151000000025305780582129955291748046875,"thumbnail":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/square_thumbnails/d62154404761de44056351d83ea69d89.jpg","fullsize":"https://www.rhodetour.org/files/fullsize/d62154404761de44056351d83ea69d89.jpg","subtitle":null,"address":"740 Plainfield St, Providence, RI 02909","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":341,"title":"Eddy 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