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Sign in to savethumb|Service street ("mews") in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in [[London. Mews are typically found at the back of older rows of townhouses, with a more elegant street in the front.]]A street is a public thoroughfare in a city, town or village, typically lined with buildings on one or both sides. Streets often include pavements (sidewalks), pedestrian crossings, and sometimes amenities like streetlights or benches. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as tarmac, concrete, cobblestone or brick. It can be des
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A street is a public road in a city, town, or village, typically lined with buildings and paved with materials like concrete or tarmac, often featuring sidewalks and pedestrian crossings. Streets matter because they serve as essential public spaces that connect communities, facilitate movement and commerce, and provide access to the buildings and amenities that make urban life possible.
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19 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Role in the built environment
- Circulation
- Vehicular traffic
- Parking for vehicles
- Sidewalk and bicycle traffic
- Tramlines
- Vehicular amenities and roadside hardware
- Landscaping
- Utilities
- Street numbering
- Interaction
- Identity
- As distinct from other spaces
- Nomenclature
- Culture
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Service street ("mews") in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in [[London. Mews are typically found at the back of older rows of townhouses, with a more elegant street in the front.]]A street is a public thoroughfare in a city, town or village, typically lined with buildings on one or both sides. Streets often include pavements (sidewalks), pedestrian crossings, and sometimes amenities like streetlights or benches. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as tarmac, concrete, cobblestone or brick. It can be designed for both social activity and movement.
Originally, the word street simply meant a paved road (). The word street is still sometimes used informally as a synonym for road, for example in connection with the ancient Watling Street, but city residents and urban planners draw a significant modern distinction: a road's main function is transportation, while streets facilitate public interaction. Examples of streets include pedestrian streets, alleys, and city-centre streets too crowded for motor vehicles to pass. Conversely, highways and motorways are types of roads, but few would refer to them as streets.