Boulevard
Wide road with buildings on sides
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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In Europe, 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 median.
Etymology
Notable examples
Asia
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Cambodia
India
Indonesia
Vietnam
- Thang Long Boulevard
Iran
Boulevards of Asia
Keshavarz Boulevard of Tehran in mid 1970s
Australia and Oceania
Australia
- St Kilda Road, Melbourne
- Royal Parade, Melbourne
- Victoria Parade, Melbourne
- Flemington Road, Melbourne
- Mount Alexander Road, Melbourne
- The Boulevard, Perth
New Zealand
Boulevards of Oceania
Marine Parade, Napier
Bealey Avenue, one of Christchurch's Four Avenues
Europe
Germany
- Unter den Linden, Berlin
- Kurfürstendamm, Berlin
- Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin
- Boulevard der Stars, Berlin
- Königsallee, Düsseldorf
- Goerdelerring, Leipzig
- Brienner Straße, Munich
- Leopoldstraße, Munich
- Maximilianstraße, Munich
- Prinzregentenstraße, Munich
Hungary
- Little Boulevard, Budapest
- Grand Boulevard, Budapest
- Hungária Boulevard, Budapest[3]
Ireland
- O'Connell Street, Dublin
Italy
- Viali di Circonvallazione, Florence
- Foro Buonaparte, Milan
- Stradone Martiri della Libertà, Parma
- Via Merulana, Rome
Netherlands
Spain
- Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Barcelona
- Avenida de la Granvia de Hospitalet, Barcelona
- Avinguda Diagonal, Barcelona
- Alameda Principal, Málaga
Portugal
Russia
- Boulevard Ring, Moscow
- Garden Ring, Moscow
Ukraine
- Lesya Ukrainka Boulevard
- Sections of Small Ring Road, Kyiv
Boulevards of Europe
Boulevard Haussmann in Paris
Combino Supra at the Grand Boulevard in Budapest![Foro Buonaparte [it] in Milan](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Milano_-_Foro_Buonaparte_-_panoramio.jpg/250px-Milano_-_Foro_Buonaparte_-_panoramio.jpg)
Foro Buonaparte in Milan
Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona
Clean Ponds in the wide median green of Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow
![Foro Buonaparte [it] in Milan](#/media/File:Milano_-_Foro_Buonaparte_-_panoramio.jpg)
North America
Canada
Mexico
- Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City
United States
- Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn
- Broadway, Manhattan
- West Side Highway, Manhattan
- FDR Drive, Manhattan (future project)
- Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles
- Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles
- Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
- Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
- Chicago Boulevard System
- Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia
- Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia
- Southern Boulevard Park, Philadelphia
- Boulevard, Atlanta
- Park Avenue, New York City
- Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas
- Ohio River Boulevard, Pittsburgh
Boulevards of North America
North Kedzie Boulevard (3200W) at West Palmer Square (2200N) in Chicago
