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Boulevard#Europe

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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.

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

The word boulevard is borrowed from French. In France, it originally meant the flat surface of a rampart, and later a promenade taking the place of a demolished fortification. It is a borrowing from the Dutch word {{wikt-lang|nl|bolwerk}} 'bulwark'.Wiktionnaire, [https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/boulevard#:~:text=Fran%C3%A7ais-,%C3%89tymologie,l'anglais%20ou%20le%20n%C3%A9erlandais.]

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Notable examples

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=Asia=

== Azerbaijan ==

== Bangladesh ==

==Cambodia==

==India==

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==Indonesia==

==Vietnam==

==Iran==

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== Philippines ==

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| Jalan Jenderal Sudirman in Jakarta

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| Keshavarz Boulevard of Tehran in mid 1970s

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| Roxas Boulevard in Manila

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| Baku Boulevard

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=Australia and Oceania=

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==Australia==

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==New Zealand==

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| File:Melbourne St Kilda Road 2017-10-10.jpg

| St Kilda Road, Melbourne

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| Royal Parade, Melbourne

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| Marine Parade, Napier

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| Bealey Avenue, one of Christchurch's Four Avenues

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=Europe=

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== Austria ==

== Denmark ==

Boulevards in Copenhagen:

== France ==

{{Main|Boulevards of Paris}}

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== Germany ==

==Hungary==

==Ireland==

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==Italy==

==Netherlands==

==Spain==

==Portugal==

==Russia==

  • Boulevard Ring, Moscow
  • Tverskoy Boulevard{{cite web|url=http://www.bulwar.ru/|title=Некоммерческий проект бульвары Москвы.|website=Bulwar.ru|access-date=16 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918121544/http://bulwar.ru/|archive-date=18 September 2017|url-status=dead}}
  • Garden Ring, Moscow

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| File:Blv-haussmann-lafayette.jpg

| Boulevard Haussmann in Paris

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| Combino Supra at the Grand Boulevard in Budapest

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| {{ill|Foro Buonaparte|it}} in Milan

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| Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona

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| Clean Ponds in the wide median green of Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow

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=North America=

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==Canada==

==Mexico==

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==United States==

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| Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma

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| Queens Boulevard in New York City

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| Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia

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| North Kedzie Boulevard (3200W) at West Palmer Square (2200N) in Chicago

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=South America=

==Argentina==

==Uruguay==

References

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Books

  • {{cite book |first=Allan B. |last=Jacobs |author2=Elizabeth Macdonald |author3=Yodan Rofé |year=2003 |title=The Boulevard Book |publisher=The MIT Press | isbn=978-0-262-60023-1}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Fiaccadori |first1=Gianfranco |author-link1=Gianfranco Fiaccadori |last2=Malinverni |first2=Alessandro |last3=Mambriani |first3=Carlo |title=Guglielmo du Tillot: regista delle arti nell'età dei Lumi |date=2012 |publisher=Fondazione Cariparma |location=Parma |isbn=978-88-7898-064-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_4wmgEACAAJ |language=it |oclc=889616353}}
  • {{cite book |last=Pastega |first=Agostino Brotto |title=Antonio Gaidon 1738–1829. Un professionista ante litteram dal rilievo mappale al boulevard |location=Bassano |publisher=Associazione Interprofessionale Bassanese |year=2010}}

External links

  • {{Wiktionary-inline|boulevard}}
  • [https://teccorp.vn/boulevard/ Boulevards in Vietnam]

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