Avenue

Avenues and Boulevards

Example 1: Avenue

See Park Avenue, New York, or Monument Avenue, Richmond.

Avenues and Boulevards are wide, tree-lined streets with formal geometry, most often with a center median. These are the grandest streets in the traditional city.

Avenues go from point to point and are visually terminated at one or both ends.

Boulevards are designed to go through the fabric of the city. By the traditional definition, they do not have terminated vistas.