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  2. Mobility (military) - Wikipedia

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    Mobility corridors can be combined to make avenues of approach. Maximum distances between mobility corridors (sizes of avenues of approach) are as follows: [citation needed] Division avenues of approach have regimental mobility corridors no more than 10 kilometers apart.

  3. Obstacles to troop movement - Wikipedia

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    Obstacles are used in combat operations to create choke points, deny mobility corridors and avenue of approach to positions, to enhance field of fire for direct fire weapons, or to protect key tactical terrain features to the enemy.

  4. Avenue (landscape) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Theories of urban planning - Wikipedia

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    This approach was found to have eroded urban living by its failure to recognize differences and aim towards homogeneous landscapes. [70] Jane Jacobs 's 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities , [ 71 ] was a sustained critique of urban planning as it had developed within modernism, [ 72 ] and played a major role in turning public ...

  6. Types of road - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt road in Norway. A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been surfaced or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or some form of conveyance, including a motor vehicle, cart, bicycle, or horse.

  7. Approach - Wikipedia

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    The Approach, an album by I:Scintilla; Other uses. Approach Beach, a gazetted beach in Ting Kau, Hong Kong; Approach shot (disambiguation) Lotus Approach, a database;

  8. Effects-based operations - Wikipedia

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    An effects-based approach to operations was first applied in modern times in the design and execution of the Desert Storm air campaign of 1991. The principal author of the daily attack plans—then Lt Colonel, now retired Lt General David A. Deptula—used an effects-based approach in building the actual Desert Storm air campaign targeting plan ...

  9. Road - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a road depends on the definition of a highway; there is no formal definition for a highway in the relevant Act. A 1984 ruling said "the land over which a public right of way exists is known as a highway; and although most highways have been made up into roads, and most easements of way exist over footpaths, the presence or ...