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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Famous quotes containing the word civic:
“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)