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the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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The Glória Funicular route is short but steep, beginning at the Praça dos Restauradores station in Baixa, right beside Avenida da Liberdade, one of Lisbon's grand boulevards.
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Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Vienna, Austria Balancing imperial legacy with modern rhythm, Vienna’s core is shaped by the Ringstrasse—a grand circular boulevard—where trams loop past the Hofburg Palace, the State Opera, and parliament’s Greek Revival columns.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The Argentos, whose Broadway Stages company is headquartered on the boulevard, strenuously opposed the redesign, as did Lewis-Martin, who advocated inside the Adams administration for the project to be rolled back, eventually resulting in the DOT modifying the plan.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
Its placement is to coincide with a more expansive Southwest Boulevard reconstruction plan, which is to include bike lanes, stamped concrete sidewalks and landscaping, including more trees along the length of the boulevard.
—Eric Adler
august 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025
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Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Vienna, Austria Balancing imperial legacy with modern rhythm, Vienna’s core is shaped by the Ringstrasse—a grand circular boulevard—where trams loop past the Hofburg Palace, the State Opera, and parliament’s Greek Revival columns.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The Argentos, whose Broadway Stages company is headquartered on the boulevard, strenuously opposed the redesign, as did Lewis-Martin, who advocated inside the Adams administration for the project to be rolled back, eventually resulting in the DOT modifying the plan.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
Its placement is to coincide with a more expansive Southwest Boulevard reconstruction plan, which is to include bike lanes, stamped concrete sidewalks and landscaping, including more trees along the length of the boulevard.
—Eric Adler
august 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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boulevard
noun
bou·le·vard
ˈbu̇l-ə-ˌvärd 
ˈbül-
: a wide avenue often having grass strips with trees along its center or sides
Etymology
from French boulevard "walkway lined with trees," derived from early Dutch bolwerc "bulwark, rampart"; so called because the earliest boulevards were at sites of razed fortifications — related to bulwark
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