The Green Alley Program is a new approach to CDOT’s existing alley program. Alleys provide a great benefi t for the City, but like all infrastructure, they also.
In older cities and towns in Europe, alleys are often what is left of a medieval street network, or a or ancient. Similar paths also exist in some older North American towns and cities. In some older urban development in North America lanes at the rear of houses, to allow for deliveries and garbage collection, are called alleys. Alleys and ginnels were also the product of the in the, where usually alleys run along the back of, with ginnels connecting them to the street every fifth house. Alleys may be paved, or unpaved, and a blind alley is a. Modern may also provide a service road to allow for waste collection, or rear access for and.
Because of geography, steps are the predominant form of alley in hilly cities and towns. This includes (see ), (see ), and in the United States, as well as, and. Some alleys are roofed because they are within buildings, such as the of, or when they are a pedestrian passage through railway embankments in Britain. The latter follow the line of that existed before the railway was built.
- National Association of City Transportation. Chicago’s Green Alley Handbook provides guidance on alleyway design and suggestions for. 'Green Alley Programs.
- Chicago's Green Alley program is one of many environmentally friendly initiatives put forth by CDOT. Green Alleys are part of CDOT's 'green. City of Chicago.
Are another kind of covered passageway and the simplest kind are no more than alleys to which a glass roof was added later, like, for example, Australia (see also, Melbourne). However, most arcades differ from alleys in that they are architectural structures built with a commercial purpose and are a form of. All the same alleys have for long been associated with various types of businesses, especially and. And are an early form of arcade found in Asia and North Africa.
North America Some attractive historic alleys are found in older American and Canadian cities, like, and. Looking south down in 's United States In the United States alleys exist in both older commercial and residential areas, for both service purposes and automobile access. In residential areas, particularly in those that were built before 1950, alleys provide rear access to property where a garage was located, or where waste could be collected by service vehicles. A benefit of this was the location of these activities to the rear, less public side of a dwelling. Such alleys are generally roughly paved, but some may be dirt. Beginning in the late 20th century, they were seldom included in plans for new housing developments. Annapolis, Maryland When, was established as a city at the beginning of the 18th century, the streets were established in circles.
That encouraged the creation of shortcuts, which over time became paved alleys. Some ten of these survive, and the city has recently worked on making them more attractive. Austin, Texas Several residential neighborhoods in, have comprehensive alley systems. These include, and areas northwest of the. Boston In the district of, Acorn Street, a narrow cobbled lane with, is one of Boston's more attractive and historic alleys. Another early settled American city, has a number of interesting alleys, some of which are footpaths and others narrow, sometimes cobbled, lanes open to traffic.
Many of the alleys in the Back Bay and South End area are numbered (e.g. 'Public Alley 438').
Charleston, South Carolina In the of Charleston’s historic district, Philadelphia Alley (c. 1766), originally named 'Cow Alley', is one of several picturesque alleys. In 1810 William Johnson gave it the name of 'Philadelphia Alley', although locals call the 'elegantly landscaped thoroughfare' 'Dueler’s Alley'.
Starting on East Bay Street, Stolls Alley is just seventeen bricks wide at its start, and named for Justinus Stoll, an 18th-century blacksmith. For three hundred years, another of Charleston's narrow lanes, Lodge Alley, served a commercial purpose. Originally merchants built homes on it, along with warehouses to store supplies their ships. Just ten-foot-wide this alley was a useful means of access to Charleston’s waterways.
Today it leads to East Bay Street's many restaurants. Cincinnati. Main article: Cincinnati is a city of hills. Before the advent of the automobile a system of stairway alleys provided pedestrians important and convenient access to and from their hill top homes. At the height of their use in the 19th century, over 30 miles (48 km) of hill side steps once connected the to each other. The first steps were installed by residents of in the 1830s in order to gain easier access to in.
In recent years many steps have fallen into disrepair but there is a movement now to rehabilitate them. Is a rare alley in Manhattan; it is not located near Broadway, East Broadway or West Broadway New York City 's is unusual in that it has very few alleys, since the did not include rear service alleys when it created Manhattan's grid. The exclusion of alleys has been criticized as a flaw in the plan, since services such as garbage pickup cannot be provided out of sight of the public, although other commentators feel that the lack of alleys is a benefit to the quality of life of the city. Two notable alleys in the neighborhood in are and. The latter is a blind alley or cul-de-sac. Greenwich Village also has a number of private alleys that lead to back houses, which can only be accessed by residents, including Grove Court, and Milligan Place, blind alleys. Patchin Place is notable for the writers who lived there.
Is a 300-foot (91 m) long pedestrian alley at the heart of the of New York City. The alley was originally created as a fire exit between the on West 45th Street and the on West 44th Street, and the to their east. Actors once gathered in the alley, hoping to attract the attention of the and get employment in their theatrical productions. When the hotel was torn down, and replaced with (1515 Broadway), the apparent width of the alley increased, as the new building did not go all the way to the westernmost edge of the building lot. However, official, Shubert Alley consists only of the space between the two theatres and the lot line. In the neighborhood of, Grace Court Alley is another converted mews, as is Dennett Place in the neighborhood.
The former is a cul-de-sac. Pedestrians walking along, Philadelphia The and neighborhoods of, the oldest parts of the city, include a number of alleys, notably, which is called 'Our nation's oldest residential street', dating from 1702. As of 2012, there were 32 houses on the street, which were built between 1728 and 1836. There are numerous cobblestoned residential passages in Philadelphia, many no wider than a truck, and typically flanked with brick houses. A typical house on these alleys or lanes is called a Philadelphia 'Trinity', named because it has three rooms, one to each floor, alluding to the Christian. These alleys include Willings Alley, between S. 4th Streets and Walnut and Spruce Streets.
Other streets in Philadelphia which fit the general description of an alley, but are not named 'alley', include, Phillips Street, South American Street, Sansom Walk, St. James Place, and numerous others. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Steps, Pittsburgh's equivalent for an alley, have defined it for many visitors.
Writing in 1937, war correspondent wrote of the steps of Pittsburgh: And then the steps. Oh Lord, the steps! I was told they actually had a Department of Steps.
That isn’t exactly true, although they do have an Inspector of Steps. But there are nearly 15 miles (24 km) of city-owned steps, going up mountainsides. The City of Pittsburgh maintains 712 sets of, some of which are shown as streets on maps. San Francisco In hilly, alleys often take the form of steps and it has several hundred public.
Among the most famous is the stairway known as the Filbert steps, a continuation of. The Filbert Street Steps descend the east slope of Telegraph Hill along the line where Filbert Street would be if the hill was not so steep. The stairway is bordered by greenery, that consists both backyards, and a border garden tended to and paid for by the residents of the 'street', and runs down to an eastern stub of Filbert Street and the walkway through the plaza to. Many houses in this residential neighborhood are accessible only from the steps. Also in, is a narrow pedestrian alley, bordered by restaurants, in the, referred to as San Francisco's French Quarter for its historic ties to early French immigrants, and its popular contemporary French restaurants and institutions. The area was home to San Francisco's first French. Approximately 3,000, sponsored by the French government, arrived near the end of the in 1851.
Boundary Passage, London, England Lombard Street and Change Alley had been the open-air meeting place of London's mercantile community before founded the Royal Exchange in 1565. In 1698, John Castaing began publishing the prices of stocks and commodities in Jonathan's Coffeehouse, providing the first evidence of systematic exchange of securities in London. Change Alley was the site of some noteworthy events in England's financial history, including the from 1711 to 1720 and the panic of 1745. In 1761 a club of 150 brokers and jobbers was formed to trade stocks.
The club built its own building in nearby Sweeting's Alley in 1773, dubbed the 'New Jonathan's', later renamed the. West of the City there are a number of alleys just north of, including Brydges Place which is situated right next to the and just 15 inches wide at its narrowest point, only one person can walk down it at a time. It is the narrowest alley in London and runs for 200 yards (180 m), connecting St Martin's Lane with Bedfordbury in Covent Garden. Close by is another very narrow passage, Lazenby Court, which runs from Rose Street to Floral Street down the side of the pub; in order to pass people must turn slightly sideways. The Lamb & Flag in Rose Street has a reputation as the oldest pub in the area, though records are not clear.
The first mention of a pub on the site is 1772. The Lazenby Court was the scene of an attack on the famous poet and playwright in 1679 by thugs hired by, with whom he had a long-standing conflict. In the same neighbourhood has an entirely different character than the two previous alleys, and is a spacious pedestrian street with shop-frontages that links with, and it is sometimes used as a location by film companies. One of the older thoroughfares in, Cecil Court dates back to the end of the 17th century. A tradesman's route at its inception, it later acquired the nickname Flicker Alley because of the concentration of early film companies in the Court. The first film-related company arrived in Cecil Court in 1897, a year after the first demonstration of moving pictures in the United Kingdom and a decade before London’s first purpose built cinema opened its doors.
Since the 1930s it has been known as the new Booksellers' Row as it is home to nearly twenty antiquarian and second-hand independent. It was the temporary home of an eight-year-old while in 1764. For almost four months the Mozart family lodged with barber John Couzin.
According to some modern authorities, Mozart composed his first symphony while a resident of Cecil Court. North of the centre of London, is a pedestrian passage off in the, famous because of its many antiques shops, and an antique market on Wednesdays and Saturday mornings. It was built, as an alley, along the backs of houses on Upper Street, then Islington High Street, in 1767.
Southern England. In, and, 'twitten' is used, for 'a narrow path between two walls or hedges'. It is still in official use in some towns including Lewes, Brighton, and. Also has twittens, the only example of use of the word and an indication of a very old street pattern'; Loughton also has a track known locally as 'The Widden', a variant of twitten. In north-west Essex and east 'twichell' is common.
In other parts of Essex, alley or path is used. In the city of (in ), is a collection of narrow lanes famous for their small shops (including several antique shops) and narrow alleyways. The area was part of the original settlement of Brighthelmstone, but The Lanes were built up during the late 18th century and were fully laid out by 1792. West of England.
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In, an alley is an 'ope'. More generally in Devon any narrow public way which is less commodious than a lane may be called a 'drangway' (from 'drang', as a dialectal variation of throng); typically it will be used on horseback or on foot with or without animals, but may also be for occasional use with vehicles. The word, according to, is also used throughout the West of England, Wiltshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, as well as Wales. Midlands and East Anglia.
In and the word 'jitty' or 'gitties' is often found and 'gulley' is a term used in the. In, 'twichell' is common (See ). In (especially ) they are called 'shuts'.
An alley (usually called a ginnel) in, Northern England. The Snickelways of York, in, often misspelt 'snickleways', are a collection of small streets, footpaths, or lanes between buildings, not wide enough for a vehicle to pass down, and usually public. York has many such paths, mostly, though there are some modern paths as well. They have names like any other city street, often quirky names such as Mad Alice Lane, Nether Hornpot Lane and even Finkle Street (formerly Mucky Peg Lane). The word 'snickelway' was coined by local author Mark W. Jones in 1983 in his book A Walk Around the Snickelways of York, and is a of the words ' snicket', meaning a passageway between walls or fences, 'ginn el', a narrow passageway between or through buildings, and 'alley way', a narrow street or lane. Although a, the word quickly became part of the local vocabulary, and has even been used in official council documents.
In, 'ghauts'. In, and, other terms in use are 'cuttings', '8-foots', '10-foots', and 'snicket'. In and, as in, an alley can be a '. There is a 'Bull Wynd' in, and Lombards Wynd in. In, including,;;,;;; and, alleys can be called '.
The chares and much of the layout of 's date from medieval times. At one point, there were 20 chares in Newcastle. After the in 1854, a number of the chares were permanently removed although many remain in existence today. Chares also are still present in the higher parts of the city centre. According to 'Quayside and the Chares' by Jack and John Leslie, chares reflected their name or residents. 'Names might change over the years, including Armourer's Chare which become Colvin's Chare'.
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Originally inhabited by wealthy merchants, the chares became slums as they were deserted due to their 'dark, cramped conditions'. The chares were infamous for their insanitary conditions – typhus was 'epidemic' and there were three cholera outbreaks in 1831-2, 1848–9 and finally in 1853 (which killed over 1,500 people).
In and, as well as, and other parts of, 'jennel', which may be spelt 'gennel' or 'ginnel', is common. In some cases, 'ginnel' may be used to describe a covered or roofed passage, as distinct from an open alley. In, the terms 'entry', 'jigger' or 'snicket' are more common. 'Entry' is also used in some parts of and, though not in South Manchester. This usually refers to a walkway between two adjoining terraced houses, which leads from the street to the rear yard or garden. The term entry is used for an alley in, (see ).
A Golden Gai alley, Tokyo, Japan. ( 新宿ゴールデン街) is a small area of, famous both as an area of architectural interest and for its nightlife.
It is composed of a network of six narrow alleys, connected by even narrower passageways which are just about wide enough for a single person to pass through. Over 200 tiny shanty-style bars, clubs and eateries are squeezed into this area.
Its architectural importance is that it provides a view into the relatively recent past of Tokyo, when large parts of the city resembled present-day Golden Gai, particularly in terms of the extremely narrow lanes and the tiny two-storey buildings. Nowadays, most of the surrounding area has been redeveloped. Typically, the buildings are just a few feet wide and are built so close to the ones next door that they nearly touch. Most are two-storey, having a small at street level and either another bar or a tiny upstairs, reached by a steep set of stairs. None of the bars are very large; some are so small that they can only fit five or so customers at one time.
The buildings are generally ramshackle, and the alleys are dimly lit, giving the area a very scruffy and run-down appearance. However, Golden Gai is not a cheap place to drink, and the clientele that it attracts is generally well off. Golden Gai is well known as a meeting place for musicians, artists, directors, writers, academics and actors, including many celebrities. Many of the bars only welcome regular customers, who initially should be introduced by an existing patron, although many others welcome non-regulars, some even making efforts to attract overseas tourists by displaying signs and price lists in English. Golden Gai was known for prostitution before 1958, when prostitution became illegal. Since then it has developed as a drinking area, and at least some of the bars can trace their origins back to the 1960s. North Africa A (: المدينة القديمة al-madīnah al-qadīmah 'the old city') is a distinct city section found in many cities.
The medina is typically walled, contains many narrow and streets. The word ' (: madīnah) itself simply means ' or ' in modern Arabic. Because of the very narrow streets, medinas are generally free from traffic, and in some cases even and traffic. The streets can be less than a metre wide. This makes them unique among highly populated urban centres. The Medina of, or, is considered one of the largest car-free urban areas in the world. Test tone generator 4 cracked.
Other meanings of the word. In, alley is also used to refer to the gap between two columns of text. A is a building where the game of is played. Gallery.
The inititative is a refinement of Chicago DOT’s existing alley program which focused on creating more permeable surfaces. Chicago alleyways, which outnumber those of any other city in the world, are lacking in proper sewer connections causing serious flooding issues.
Rather than simply opting for expensive sewer hookups, the city started retrofitting alleys with permeable pavements and pavers. The Green Alley Program raises the bar with a more comprehensive strategy to implement environmentally friendly solutions to the city’s infrastructure problems. The pilot program has three main focus points which include using to reduce stormwater runoff, high albedo pavements to reduce urban heat island effect and using recycled material such as concrete aggregate, slag and recycled tire rubber.
The city will incorporate several techniques to improve the quality of the city’s environment. Proper grading and pitch will facilitate drainage. Light fixtures, which direct light downward, will help reduce light pollution and provide uniform illumination. Areas, bioswales and vegetated swales will improve stormwater management. Neighboring property owners will also play a role in greening the city’s alleyways.
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The city is encouraging residents to contribute to the health of the urban ecosystem by implementing best management practices like, and, no surprise, considering green roofs. December 23, 2007 at 10:29 am 2.5M sq ft of green roofs + Lots of good steps = keep going! 'The city is encouraging residents to contribute to the health of the urban ecosystem by implementing best management practices like using native landscaping, building raingardens, installing rain barrels, composting and, no surprise, considering green roofs.' Judging form that second picture 'encouraging' replaced with 'mandating' would be a more responsible act. PS: is that one of those eco-friendly implied speed bumps in the first pic?