Civic Infrastructure
Australians use the word footpath instead of the more American English version of sidewalk, or the British pavement. Although sidewalk is increasingly accepted and understood, the use of footpath continues to be prevalent in colloquial use and on official signs. The term pavement is also commonly used, but the term is more generic and does not uniquely refer to a pedestrian walkway beside a road.
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“It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable tentacular oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)