Road breakthrough
A road breakthrough is the creation of a road by breaking through an existing barrier. Such a barrier can be built-up or a natural obstacle.
Road openings are created in order to adapt an established transport network to modern requirements. This can represent a significant intervention in the urban planning conditions, for example when entire city districts are cut and traffic flows are relocated.
From around 1800, major road breakthroughs took place as part of the modernization of the cities and through the laying of railway lines. After the Second World War , road breakthroughs were part of the over-planning of cities and urban transport networks through the idea of a car-friendly city .
Examples
Paris
- 1800s: Rue de Rivoli
Hamburg
- 1870s: Colonnades
- 1890s: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse
- 1910s: Mönckebergstrasse
- 1960s: East-West Street
Frankfurt am Main
- 1860s: New Krems
- 1870s: Kaiserstraße
- 1890s: Goethestrasse
- 1900s: Braubachstrasse
- 1950s: Berliner Strasse
Athens
- 1840s: Hermesstrasse. Further road breakthroughs were not necessary because of the financial impracticability.
Bucharest
- 1930s: Boulevard Magheru
- 1930s: Boulevard Dacia
- 1950s: Bulevardul Anul 1848
- 1980s: Boulevard Dimitrie Cantmir
- 1980s: Boulevard Națiunile Unite
- 1980s: Boulevard Libertății
- 1980s: Boulevard Unirii
Buenos Aires
- 1890s: Avenida de Mayo
Rome
- 1930s: Via dei Fori Imperiali
- 1940s: Via della Conciliazione
Ardakan (Iran)
- 1959
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the social and ecological damage as a result of the construction work in Ardakan cf. Ali Ghaffar-Sedeh (1990), Foundations and design principles of the traditional cities of central Iran. Ed .: Urban Development Institute in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Stuttgart. Urban Development Institute <Stuttgart>: work report; 45 (350 pp.), Pp. 301-305.