The sidewalks are gravel. They flood when it rains, but they're green.

The spread of 'camarote' structures along pavements is not alone as an issue.

Historical plaques in the sidewalks mark the full extent of Fort Winchester.

The advent of container shipping, with its need for large container handling spaces adjacent to the shipping berths, has made working piers obsolete for the handling of general cargo, although some still survive for the handling of passenger ships or bulk cargos.

The most well known piers are perhaps the two at Brighton in East Sussex and the three at Blackpool in Lancashire.

Coca Cola supplies the cabins to traders who sell its products, just as it might provide promotional umbrellas to outdoor cafés in Paris.

The entire cemetery is laid out in sections like city blocks, with wide tree lined main walkways branching into sidewalks filled with mausoleums.

Their businesses include small stores or a stand on a busy sidewalk selling specific goods or providing some service.

JA The ramps are made of simple material the kind of plywood you see at construction sites which is really the whole point.

Tetrapods, normally used to build piers, have been used in Mariupol s defense, and today are found around the city decorated with Ukrainian folk symbols.

Early pleasure piers were of wooden construction, with iron structures being introduced with the construction in 1855 of Margate Jetty, in Margate, England.

In addition to, I think, doing a beautiful adaptive reuse, they tore up some of the parking spaces, put in bioswales to collect and clean the runoff, put in a lot more sidewalks to connect to the neighborhoods.

Even in the prime commercial districts and chic neighborhoods of Bangkok, the nation s richest city, a short walk reveals miles of cracked pavements, piles of uncollected garbage, and rats scurrying freely.

They were constructed chiefly of sun dried bricks, and all that remains of them is the lower part of the walls, decorated with sculpture and paintings, portions of the pavements, a few indications of the elevation, and some interesting works connected with the drainage.

And it suddenly occurred to me, that among my many fears, were not just that the bureaucracy and the regulators and the legislators might not get it it was that, fundamentally, you believe there's pressure among the people not to invade the most precious little bit of space left, the sidewalks in these cities.

Suddenly I am caught in semi gridlock, and the worst kind, gridlock with gangs of adolescents wandering the sidewalks on both sides of the car, gridlock with main routes being barred, gridlock with people in adjacent cars spraying each other with high arching streams of foam it s like suddenly being in the middle of a nightmare.

Because so much of that book was a celebration of the power and creative potential of density, of largely urban density, of connecting people and putting them together in one place, and putting them on sidewalks together and having them share ideas and share physical space together.

During rush hour in Nairobi, it is nearly impossible for disabled people to get to the city center to work in their tiny businesses, which normally involve selling sweets and polishing shoes near the sidewalks, by public transportation.

The past and the present work quite well together in Italy also, and I think that it's recognizable there, and has an important effect on culture, because their public spaces are protected, their sidewalks are protected, and you're actually able to confront these things physically, and I think this helps people get over their fear of modernism and other such things.

These civility laws effectively criminalize activities considered undesirable, such as sitting or lying on sidewalks, sleeping in parks, urinating or drinking in public, and begging, in an attempt to force the individuals doing these and other activities to relocate to the margins of society.