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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. Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls .
A new street, boulevard d'Enfer (today's boulevard Raspail) was built up to the intersection Sèvres–Babylone. The streets around the Panthéon on Montagne Sainte-Geneviève were extensively changed. A new street, avenue des Gobelins, was created, and part of rue Mouffetard was expanded.
Confederation Boulevard is a collection of several streets in Ottawa and Gatineau, forming a loop with several spurs. In order to connect these streets visually, urban designers employed the use of consistent street paving (using pink Canadian granite), lampposts adorned with bronze maple leaves, and distinctive street furniture.
The headquarters are located at 4621 Paseo, formerly at Volker Boulevard. Brush Creek, from Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard to Volker Boulevard. "PASEO" Rocks and Stairs, At Volker Blvd, leading up to the old Paseo High School, now Paseo Academy. Rockhurst University, from Rockhurst Road (52nd Street) to 54th Street.
Queens Boulevard is the starting point of a number of other major streets in Queens, such as Northern Boulevard, Woodhaven Boulevard, Junction Boulevard, Roosevelt Avenue, and Main Street. [2] Queens Boulevard has a width of 100 feet (30 m) from Queens Plaza to Van Dam Street, 200 feet (61 m) from Van Dam Street to Union Turnpike, 150 feet (46 ...
Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard: Formerly Magnolia Street and later 19th Street, it was named for the civil rights leader eight years after his death in 1967. The 1975 naming created quite a stir ...
Washington Boulevard is one of the city's main boulevards and part of Augustus Woodward's 1807-design for the city. Because Woodward's plan was never completed, the boulevard contains a sharp curve south of Michigan Avenue where it was connected to an existing street. [2] The street was broadened and ornamented in the early part of the 20th ...
The Oklahoma City Boulevard plan became controversial when the full extent of ODOT's original intended design became public during an Oklahoma City Streetcar meeting. At that meeting, ODOT Division Director Paul Green explained ODOT's intent for a thoroughfare design rather than a traditional urban street type boulevard.