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This category contains articles about streets and roads around the world. A street is a strip of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, where people may reside, assemble and interact. Streets are part of Urban planning. A road is a strip of land connecting two or more destinations over which people and goods are transported. Roads are part of Road transport. See Category:Roads. When a road passes through an urban area it may also serve as a street. Both roads and streets are part of Civil engineering A street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as concrete, cobblestone or brick. Portions may also be smoothed with asphalt, embedded with rails, or otherwise prepared to accommodate non-pedestrian traffic. 
Typical service street ("mews") in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Mews are typically found at the back of older housing terraces (rows of townhouses) in the UK, with a more elegant street in front of the terrace.
A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way between two places, which typically has been improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, or motorized vehicle. Modern roads are normally smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel although historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction or maintenance. A road is made up of one or more roadways (British: Carriageway) each with one or more 
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