Boulevard
As Boulevard ( medium bulwerke Dutch, German " bulwark " ) is called in France, originally a wide ring road that was built after the demolition of the wall of an urban fortification on the same. Consequently, they surrounded the former inner city ring.
The best known example is the Parisian Grands Boulevards. The first of these boulevards originated at the beginning of the modern era. Along the ring roads, new industries and activities settled. In Paris, developed at the Boulevard du Temple new popular forms of theater. The typical flaneur of the boulevards was called boulevardier.
History
The term was extended in the second half of the 19th century some of the broad straight boulevards, the prefect Haussmann as part of the reorganization of Paris at the behest of Napoleon III. created in 1853 under the collective name Grands Boulevards. Examples are the Boulevard Saint -Michel and the Boulevard de Sebastopol. Hausmann suggested this wide aisles through the still existing medieval structure, whose narrow streets were declared as hygienic and traffic-technically questionable, from the viewpoints of the modernization and upgrading of the property portfolio. Another objective was the easier control of riots: roadblocks could not so easily be built by house wall to wall houses.
In 1860, however, chose a nomenclature Commission that as of now the title Boulevard should remain annularly extending roads subject: hence the name of the Boulevards des Maréchaux one hand, and the name of Avenue de l' Opéra other.
Famous boulevards
Europe
- Andrássy út in Budapest
- Avenue des Champs- Élysées in Paris
- Bulevardul Unirii in Bucharest
- King Avenue in Dusseldorf
- King Street in Stuttgart
- Kurfürstendamm in Berlin
- La Rambla in Barcelona
- Ludwig Street in Munich
- Maximilian Strasse in Munich
- Mönckebergstraße in Hamburg
- Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg
- East Wall in Krefeld
- Oxford Street in London
- Unter den Linden in Berlin
- Wenceslas Square in Prague
- Vienna's Ringstrasse
North America
- Fifth Avenue in New York
- Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles
- Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas