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Avenue (archaeology), a specialist term in archaeology referring to lines of stones; Avenue (store), a clothing store; The Avenue, a Rugby Union stadium in Sunbury-on-Thames, England; L'Avenue, a skyscraper in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Avenue, a GIS scripting language for ArcView 3.x; Avenues: The World School, school in New York City
Tree avenue in Normandy, France An avenue at Alexandra Park, London. In landscaping, an avenue (from the French), alameda (from the Portuguese and Spanish), or allée (from the French), is a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape ...
Avenue (Av or Ave) Broad roadway, usually planted on each side with trees. Boardwalk (Bwlk) Promenade or path, especially of wooden planks, for pedestrians and sometimes vehicles, along or overlooking a beach or waterfront. Boulevard (Bvd or Blvd) Wide roadway, well paved, usually ornamented with trees and grass plots.
It is also a rear access or service road , or a path, walk, or avenue (French allée) in a park or garden. [1] A covered alley or passageway, often with shops, may be called an arcade. The origin of the word alley is late Middle English, from Old French: alee "walking or passage", from aller "to go", from Latin: ambulare "to walk". [2]
A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway or wide road in a commercial district. Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls. In North American usage, boulevards may be wide, multi-lane thoroughfares divided with only a central ...
An avenue in São Paulo. There is a haphazard relationship, at best, between a thoroughfare's function and its name. For example, London's Abbey Road serves all the vital functions of a street, despite its name, and locals are more apt to refer to the "street" outside than the "road".
The network structure of Radburn, New Jersey exemplifies the concept of street hierarchy of contemporary districts. (The shaded area was not built.) The street hierarchy is an urban planning technique for laying out road networks that exclude automobile through-traffic from developed areas.
The Antelope Valley has a similar system, but with streets in between (e.g. Avenue J-8) taking the name of the first avenue to their north, and suffixed with a number for how many sixteenths of a mile south they are. For example, Avenue J-8 is 8/16 mile (1/2 mile) south of Avenue J.