wide boulevards

Spacious city streets

Wide boulevards are broad, tree-lined urban streets, typically with multiple lanes and often a central median or pedestrian promenade.

The phrase evokes grand city planning—Paris, Buenos Aires, or Washington D.C.—suggesting spaciousness, prestige, and deliberate design: The café tables spilled onto the sidewalk along the wide boulevards of the city center.

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Haussmann · belle époque · strolling · cafes · outdoor seating · grand · sweeping · traffic · lanes · urban · spacious · elegant · processions · parades · pedestrian traffic · leafy · benches · lampposts

Opposites
width/spaciousness

wide boulevardsnarrow alleys

Thin passages between structures

narrow lanes · winding passages · footpaths

urban planning philosophy

wide boulevardsmedieval streets

Roads from the Middle Ages

souks

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G