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A street is a linear urban space that allows the movement of people and, where appropriate, vehicles, and gives access to buildings and lots that are on both sides. In the subsoil of the street, the networks of the urban services facilities are usually arranged to buildings such as: sewerage, potable water, gas, electricity and telephony network. The space of the street is of indefinite length, interrupted only by the crossing with other streets or, in isolated cases, by the end of the street, in a square, in an urban park, in another street, etc., or by the end of the city in the limit with the field.

The main features that we associate with a street in a town, a town or a city are: .1 .- The street is, first of all, a way or way to go from one place to another of the population.

The street, with some exceptions, is a space of circulation for both people and vehicles.2.- The street is an urban public space, it is the support for non-private citizen activities such as: going home, to work or to the school, the walk, the children's game, meeting with friends or neighbors, etc., and also of public citizen activities.3.- The street is linear, the longitudinal dimension predominates in it and in the associated infrastructures as well as in the social activities that take place there as they are: the processions, demonstrations, parades, etc., as well as the fairs, markets, popular festivals that have their place and scatter along the streets, and how are you, they converge in the main squares of the towns.4.- The buildings or, where appropriate, the lots flank the street, and with them also the associated activities: the trade, the windows, the information, the advertising claims. or of all kinds, as well as the architecture itself, the sculptures, the design and a series of cultural or aesthetic events or manifestations that have their stage on the street, such as: certain sports, music, dances, arts, etc. And the tourism that is done and lives on the street. Gustavo Giovannoni said that the streets that in other times were used almost exclusively to delimit the built space and give access to buildings, have become, in the modern city, in containers of the circulation of vehicles and people, «.. The streets they are the true organs of the movement of cities.

" In line with this reflection, Giorgio Rigotti in his "Treaty of Urbanism" points out that the definition of the urban road can be expressed in the following terms: "Urban roads are the strips of land used mainly for the movement of vehicles and pedestrians, and secondly, as elements in which, those who confront, have the right of access and capture of light and air ». Thus we see how the buildings, mostly have access from the street and on it open portals, windows and balconies. The typical street has the constant width, since the facades of the buildings or the limits of the lots are parallel planes, but there are of variable width, some as illustrious as the initial stretch of Alcalá street in Madrid. The width itself is an extremely variable dimension of the streets. Thus we have the narrow streets of Arab cities opposed to the great avenues and promenades of modern cities, which integrate the adjacent urban space on the street.

Between both ends we have a range of spaces of different widths, with roadway for cars or without road as the pedestrian streets, or with more or less wide pavements, with additional single or double platforms, etc., we also have streets with separation and specialization of the traffic, bicycle lanes, bus, tram, etc. The decision to design, fix the width and make a new street, or to widen an existing street even at the expense of the expropriation and demolition of adjacent buildings, corresponds to the City Council or the town planning authority of the place and is based on the urban planning or infrastructure planning, consequently is based on the work and methodology of these urban or territorial design sciences. The most common structure of the street is formed by two lateral strips that are the sidewalks and the central strip that is the roadway. The sidewalks are generally limited by the curb, which is a piece that forms a shoulder or step that keeps the pavement of the sidewalk higher than it of the road.

The function of the curb is none other than to provide some protection to people moving on the sidewalks, both to prevent vehicles that circulate on the road from going up and hurting them, and to drive the rainwater that drains by over towards the channel formed by the curbs with the road.

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